She received the Dever Fellowship in 2010 after the completion of her poetry thesis, “The Good Women.” Her chapbook Opening the Storm Door received the McCarthy Creative Writing Award in 2009 and her poem "The Paper Called Them Black-Fish" was recently awarded the Gary Fincke Prize for Poetry. Her poems have been published in several journals, including Susquehanna Review, Best Undergraduate Writing of 2009, and Pure Francis.