Finalist, Artist Initiative Grant, Minnesota State Arts Board (2016)
Academy of American Poets James Wright Prize (2013)
⇒ For poems “Sugarwhite”; “Sugar Prophecy”; “Dream in Which Time is a Plank”
College of Liberal Arts Research/Travel Fellowship, University of Minnesota (2013)
⇒ For proposed creative project “Hyperthetical Refractions—A Collaboration of Selves”
Honorable Mention, Gesell Award for Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing Program, University of Minnesota (2013)
⇒ For essay “Windward”
ArtWords Contest, Weisman Art Museum (2012)
⇒ First Place in graduate category for poem “Two/Yellow”
Michael Dennis Browne Poetry Fellowship, Creative Writing Program, University of Minnesota (2012)
Gesell Award for Poetry, Creative Writing Program, University of Minnesota (2011)
⇒ For poems “Dead Reckoning”; “Kinh Funeral”; “Thai Nguyen Province, 2009”; “Window, White Trees”; “Sometimes It Really Is Just the Wind”
⇒ Judged by C. Dale Young
Poems about Hanoi National Poetry Competition, Vietnam Writers’ Association (2010)
⇒ Poem by a Foreign Poet category winner for poem “In Hanoi, Again”
University Excellence in Literary Publications Award, Colorado State University (2003)
Undergraduate Creative Writing Scholarship, Colorado State University (2002)