AWARDS & HONORS

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