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Requiem for Used Ignition Cap Won the 2016 Bob Bush Memorial Award for Best First Book of Poetry from the Texas Institute of Letters

Prizes


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Winner of the 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
for Ascension


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Selected by Rachel McKibbens as the Winner of the 2013 Button Poetry Prize for Highway or Belief

Selected by C. Dale Young as the Winner of the 2015 Orison Poetry Prize for Requiem for Used Ignition Cap


 
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Winner of the 2015 Tree Light Books Chapbook Prize

for On the Occasion of the Last Old Camp Meeting in Llano County


Finalist / Semifinalist Recognition for Manuscripts

What Flesh Inherits was a finalist for the 2016 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and 2017 Tupelo Press Dorset Prize. 
Requiem for Used Ignition Cap was finalist for the 2015 National Poetry Series, a semifinalist for the 2014 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition and First Book Award, a finalist for the 2013 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, and a semifinalist for the 2013 University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham / Pollak Prize and Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Open Competition. Ascension was a finalist for the 2013 Organic Weapon Arts David Blair Memorial Chapbook Prize.

After Six Months of Drought: Poems was a finalist for the 2013 Sundress Publications Chapbook Contest. County Lines was a semifinalist for the 2012 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award and semifinalist for the University of Wisconsin Press Brittingham / Pollak Prize. Disappearing Town was a finalist for the 2012 Bateau Press Boom Chapbook Competition.



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