2013 Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.

Lindquist & Vennum Poetry Prize, selected by Peter Campion, 2012.

Shabo Award, Children’s Literature, the Loft, Fall 2010.

McKnight Artist Fellowship for Writers Loft Award in Poetry, 2006,      selected by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Shannon Leadership Institute, Fellow, Wilder Foundation, Saint Paul.
      2002.

Distinguished Teaching and Service Award, Graduate Liberal Studies,      Hamline University, 1998.

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry, 1992.

Jerome Travel and Study Grant, the Jerome Foundation, 1995.

Bush Foundation Artist Fellowship, 1990.

Minnesota State Arts Board Fellowship. 1989, 2010, 2013.

Loft-McKnight Award in Poetry, 1988.

Residency, Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois. 1986, 1989.

Montalvo Poetry Award, San Francisco, 1983.