Awards

Awards, Honors & Fellowships

2024    National Book Critics Circle member since 2012

2015    Library of Congress Permanent Collection, The God of Longing

2014    American Library Association selection, The God of Longing

2014    OUT 100: Out magazine’s 100 newsmakers of 2014

2014    Lambda Book Award nominee for poetry, The God of Longing

2014    Amazon Top 10: The God of Longing peaked at #8 in LGBTQ Poetry

2012    Crab Orchard Poetry Contest finalist. Judge: Dorianne Laux

2011    AQLF Broadside Contest winner. Judge: Mark Doty    

2011    Community of Writers Fellowship

2010    San Francisco Public Library “Poets 11” Winner. Judge: Jack Hirschman

2008    Lambda Litarary Foundation Fellowship

2008    Pushcart Prize nominee

2008    Napa Valley Writers Scholarship

2007    Poets & Writers Speaking Grant 

2007    Lambda Literary Foundation Fellowship

2006    Teaching Fellowship, City University of New York

1997    GLAAD Recognition for LGBT Youth Journalism 

1996    OUT 100: Out magazine's 100 newsmakers of 1996

1996    Blue Bear School of Music SF: Scholarship