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AWARDS & HONORS
- Elliot Cades Literary Award for an Established Artist, Hawai’i Literary Arts Council, 2017
- Lannan Foundation Literary Fellowship, Poetry, 2016
- Chancellors’ Citation for Meritorious Teaching, University of Hawaiʻi, 2016
- American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 2015
- PEN Center USA Poetry Society of America Literary Prize (Poetry), Winner, 2011
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Poetry), Finalist, 2011
- Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship, 2009-2011
- Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Award, 2010
- Emily Chamberlain Cook Poetry Prize, 2009
- Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2007-2009
- Graduate Student Merit Scholarship, University of San Francisco, 2004-2005
- Jean Burden Poetry Award, 2001
- Creative Writing Grant, University of Redlands, 1998-2002
- Merit Scholarship, University of Redlands, 1998-2002