Awards and Recognitions

“In the Village” — Finalist and Honorable Mention, Steve Kowit Poetry Prize, San Diego Entertainment + Arts Guild (2024)

“Photographed” and “United States” displayed at the “Color of Surveillance” conference held by Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology (November 2024)

“Kalai Niram” — International Merit Award, Atlanta Review (2024)

Finalist, Sewanee Review’s annual poetry contest (2023)

“Ambulance Rides” nominated for “Best of the Net” (2022)

“Fines” was a longlist finalist in the Poetry Society of the United Kingdom’s National Poetry Competition

“Our Common Fever,” “After My Father Died,” and “On Dualism” were awarded Vern Cowles Prize for a Trinity of Poems (Southeast Missouri State University Press)

“Papanasam” won third prize in the William Matthews Poetry Contest (2015)

“Malai Kallam” received an Honorable Mention in the William Dickey Memorial Broadside Contest, hit & run press

Finalist, “Poets Out Loud” Book Prize, Fordham University, 2011, 2015

“Uchi Vallai” — Third Prize, Jeff Marks Memorial Poetry Prize

Lucille Clifton Memorial Scholarship, Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 2013

Finalist, Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest, 2012

Semifinalist, New Women’s Voices Chapbook Competition, Finishing Line Press, 2012

“Account of my Daughter” was awarded the Ann Stanford Poetry Prize

Semifinalist, Emily Dickinson Award, Universities West Press, 2002

John Crowe Ransom Poetry Prize, Kenyon College, 2000

Interviews published in The Cape Rock (print issue) and Best New Poets blog