Invited Talks and Readings

Mohawk Valley Community College, Utica, New York
Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
PEN Women, Gloucester, Virginia
Lock Haven University, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Christopher Newport University, Newport News, Virginia
Virginia Wesleyan College, Contemporary Poets Series, Norfolk, Virginia
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia
Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, California
Muscarelle Museum, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Thomas Nelson Community College, Newport News, Virginia
Seabury Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois
Poetry Society of Virginia Annual Festival, Williamsburg, Virginia
Chesapeake Bay Writers, Williamsburg, Virginia
Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Bay Ridge Festival of the Arts, Brooklyn, New York
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Hofheimer Gallery, Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia
Newport News Public Library (Inaugural Presentation), Newport News, Virginia
Williamsburg Regional Library (Poetry Month Celebration), Williamsburg, Virginia
Norfolk Academy, Norfolk, Virginia
Wingate University, Charlotte, North Carolina


Selected Awards

Distinguished Scholar, Union College, 2009; First Prize Winner, Whitebird Poetry Prize, 2008; Best of the Decade Issue, Hawai'i Pacific Review, 2007; Outstanding Poetry Achievement Award, Virginia Writers Club, 2006; First Prize Winner, Conference on Christianity & Literature Poetry Prize, 2004; Editor's Prize, Marlboro Poetry Award, 2002; First Prize Co-Winner, The Aldrich Poetry Competition, 2002; Editor's Prize, Pavement Saw Press Transcontinental Poetry Award, 2001; Poetry Fellowship from the Virginia Commission for the Arts, 2000; First Prize Winner, Rainer Maria Rilke Poetry Award, 1997; various finalist commendations.