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Awards and Honors

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  • 2026 Antigone Journal Epigram Trifariam: The 13th Antigone Competition, 3rd Prize

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  • 2022 The Caterpillar Children's Poetry Prize, one of four poems highly commended by judge Naomi Shihab Nye
     

  • 2020-21 YorkMix Chldren's Poetry Award, one poem "highly commended"
     

  • 2019 The Caterpillar Children's Poetry Prize, one poem "highly commended" by judge Roger McGough
     

  • 2019 Willis Barnstone Translation Prize, co-winner of first prize for my translation of Leo Strauss's poem, "The Village of As Though"
     

  • 2018 The Caterpillar Children's Poetry Prize, two poems "highly commended" by judge Brian Moses
     

  • 2018 YorkMix Children's Poetry Award, one poem "commended" and one poem "highly commended"
     

  • 2016 X.J. Kennedy Parody Award, first prize for "Archaic Torso of Barbie," my parody of Rilke's "Archaic Torso of Achilles"

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