Honors and Awards

            Selected for Billy Collins’ Poetry 180 Project, published 2003

            Featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac, 2001

            Poet in Residence, University of South Carolina, Spring 2000

            Participation in “A Millennial Gathering of Writers of the New South”

            at Vanderbilt University, Spring 2000

            Selected to read at the Library of Congress, 1995

            Represented South Carolina in NEA’s Writing America project

            Gettysburg Review award for best poem published in 1995

            Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, 1984

            Rockefeller/Bellagio Fellowship, 1990

            Witter Bynner Fellowship, 1986-87

            North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, 1987

            National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1984

            Writer’s Fulbright to Yugoslavia, 1984

            Emily Clark Balch Award, Virginia Quarterly Review, 1984

            Individual Artist’s Fellowship, South Carolina Arts Commission

            1982

            Fellowships to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Summer,

            1979 and 1981) and to The MacDowell Colony (Winter, 1979-1980)

            Individual Artist’s Fellowship, South Carolina Arts Commission,

            1978

            Individual Artist’s Grant, South Carolina Arts Commission, 1976

            Young Memorial Award (North Carolina Poetry Council) for Step

            Carefully in Night Grass, given for best book of poems by a North