Honors & Awards
2026
Late Spring Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Poetry
2025
Center for Cultural Innovation Grant
Pirate's Ink, People's Choice Award, Santa Paula Film Festival
2024
New Media Gallery—Film Choice Award, Ventura, California
+Care
2022
Convenings Grant—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation
2021
Artist-in-Residence—Cel del Nord, Barcelona, Spain
Summer Writing Residency—Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada
Poet-in-Residence—Gualala Arts Center
2018
Rotary Educator of the Year, Tiburon, California—Social Justice Work in Education
2017
Arts Educator of the Year, Tiburon Arts & Heritage Commission--Poetry Program and related Curriculum
2014
Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press, Kindergarde
2011
Pushcart Prize Nominee, Lullaby
Best of Class, Free Verse Poetry Award, Marin County Juried Contest--Lullaby
2010
Creative Work Fund Grant for Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs publication and associated performances
Best of Class, Free Verse Poetry Award, Marin County Juried Contest--For Middle Schoolers and Other Maligned Citizens
2006
Marin Arts Council Individual Artist’s Grant: Poetry/Creative Nonfiction Project “Q"
2005
Zeum: Artist/Teacher in Residence for OUR WATER US & CHINA COLLABORATIVE EXHIBIT, San Francisco
2003
RACE TO THE RECALL: Gubernatorial Debate #3 Arts Advocate & Constituent 34:27
2002
California Arts Council Individual Artist Grant: Poetry Yolo County Grant Recipient: Poetry in Alternative Education
2001
California Arts Council Arts-In-Education Grant, Lead Artist The Power of Poetry, Calaveras County
2000
Peninsula Community Foundation Grant Recipient--Curren¢y
1999
Zellerbach Family Fund Grant Recipient—LINK Peninsula Community Foundation Grant Recipient--All The Words On Money
1998
Departmental Honors Awarded, SFSU Creative Writing
Joseph Henry Jackson Award for Poetry from the San Francisco Foundation
Zellerbach Family Fund Grant Recipient—LINK
Mark Linenthal Award, Transfer Magazine, Volume 76
Academy of American Poets Award—1st Place; Judged by Paul Hoover
1997
Ann Fields Poetry Contest—1st Place Winner; Judged by Norma Cole
3rd Place in the Browning Society's Dramatic Monologue Contest
1996
Ann Fields Poetry Contest—2nd Place Winner
Finalist in the Browning Society's Dramatic Monologue Contest
1995
Finalist in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Annual Poetry Contest
Late Spring Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts, Poetry
2025
Center for Cultural Innovation Grant
Pirate's Ink, People's Choice Award, Santa Paula Film Festival
2024
New Media Gallery—Film Choice Award, Ventura, California
+Care
2022
Convenings Grant—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
THE BEAUTIFUL: Poets Reimagine a Nation
2021
Artist-in-Residence—Cel del Nord, Barcelona, Spain
Summer Writing Residency—Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada
Poet-in-Residence—Gualala Arts Center
2018
Rotary Educator of the Year, Tiburon, California—Social Justice Work in Education
2017
Arts Educator of the Year, Tiburon Arts & Heritage Commission--Poetry Program and related Curriculum
2014
Lion & Unicorn Award for Excellence in North American Poetry, Johns Hopkins University Press, Kindergarde
2011
Pushcart Prize Nominee, Lullaby
Best of Class, Free Verse Poetry Award, Marin County Juried Contest--Lullaby
2010
Creative Work Fund Grant for Kindergarde: Avant-garde Poems, Plays, Stories, and Songs publication and associated performances
Best of Class, Free Verse Poetry Award, Marin County Juried Contest--For Middle Schoolers and Other Maligned Citizens
2006
Marin Arts Council Individual Artist’s Grant: Poetry/Creative Nonfiction Project “Q"
2005
Zeum: Artist/Teacher in Residence for OUR WATER US & CHINA COLLABORATIVE EXHIBIT, San Francisco
2003
RACE TO THE RECALL: Gubernatorial Debate #3 Arts Advocate & Constituent 34:27
2002
California Arts Council Individual Artist Grant: Poetry Yolo County Grant Recipient: Poetry in Alternative Education
2001
California Arts Council Arts-In-Education Grant, Lead Artist The Power of Poetry, Calaveras County
2000
Peninsula Community Foundation Grant Recipient--Curren¢y
1999
Zellerbach Family Fund Grant Recipient—LINK Peninsula Community Foundation Grant Recipient--All The Words On Money
1998
Departmental Honors Awarded, SFSU Creative Writing
Joseph Henry Jackson Award for Poetry from the San Francisco Foundation
Zellerbach Family Fund Grant Recipient—LINK
Mark Linenthal Award, Transfer Magazine, Volume 76
Academy of American Poets Award—1st Place; Judged by Paul Hoover
1997
Ann Fields Poetry Contest—1st Place Winner; Judged by Norma Cole
3rd Place in the Browning Society's Dramatic Monologue Contest
1996
Ann Fields Poetry Contest—2nd Place Winner
Finalist in the Browning Society's Dramatic Monologue Contest
1995
Finalist in the San Francisco Bay Guardian’s Annual Poetry Contest