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2008: Pushcart Prize nomination for "What the Living Do" published in Creative Nonfiction, Summer, 2007 2007: Project Grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR 2006: Poetry in Motion: Poem selected for display on TriMet buses and MAX trains, sponsored by Poetry Society of America and Literary Arts 2005: Honorable Mention, Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, Cutthroat, A Journal of the Arts 2005: Finalist: Oregon Book Awards, for Horses and the Human Soul 2004: The Arvon/Times International Poetry Competition, short listed, finalists anthology 2004: “The Looking Glass” poetry contest, first place winner 2003: The Bridport Prize, U.K.: 3rd prize 2003: Short listed for Writer of the Year Award, London, England 2003: First runner-up, New Letters Award, Creative Nonfiction 2002: Winner Clackamas Review Poetry Contest, judge: Jeff Knorr 2001: Winner Lambda Literary Award for Lifesaving: A Memoir 2001: PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir, Lifesaving: A Memoir, one of three finalists 2000: Daily Telegraph/Arvon Foundation (England) poetry contest, finalists’ anthology 2000: First place, Portland (England) Poetry Contest 2000: Oregon Literary Arts Inc., fellowship in creative nonfiction 2000: Petra Kenney Poetry Competition (England), Third Place, judge: U.A.Fanthorpe 1998: Barbara Deming Fund grant for creative nonfiction 1997: Stuart H. Holbrook Award for outstanding contributions to Oregon’s literary life, with Ruth Gundle 1997: Winner, Clackamas Review Poetry Contest, judge: Vern Rutsala 1997: Resident: Centrum Center for the Arts, Port Townsend, Washington 1997: First Place, White Mice Award in Poetry from the Lawrence Durrell Association 1997: Oregon Arts Commission Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction 1996: Dulwich Festival (London) Poetry Competition: First Prize, judge: Mimi Khalvati 1996: Resident fellow: Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland 1996: Grant from Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, Oregon 1995: Andres Berger Award in Creative Nonfiction from Northwest Writers 1994: American Civil Liberties Union, Oregon: Freedom of Expression Award 1993: Oregon Institute of Literary Arts: Creative Nonfiction Grant 1993: Sonora Review Annual Nonfiction Award 1992: Four poems displayed as part of the Seattle Poetry on the Buses project 1992: Invitational residency, Cottages at Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, WA 1992: Associate writer, poetry, Atlantic Center for the Arts, with Amy Clampitt 1991: Oregon Institute of Literary Arts Poetry Grant 1991: First Place: Portland Poetry Festival contest (Judges: Robert McDowell & Lex Runciman) 1989: Oregon Institute of Literary Arts, Creative Nonfiction Grant 1988: Barbara Deming Fund: The Gerty Gerty Gerty in the Arts Arts Arts Award 1988: Resident Fellow: Cottages at Hedgebrook, Whidbey Island, Washington 1987: Metropolitan Arts Commission Grant, Portland, Oregon 1985: Metropolitan Arts Commission Grant, Portland, Oregon 1983: Jeanette Rankin Award, Oregon Women’s Political Caucus |