- 1998: GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR POETRY for White Stone: The Alice Poems
- First Prize winner of (m)Other Tongue Press' Poetry Chapbook Contest, for "Inside a Tent of Skin: poems from the National Gallery of Canada"
- 1997: One of two winners of The Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, for "Deux personnages dans la nuit: poems from paintings by Jean Paul Lemieux"
- 1997: First Prize winner of Contemporary Verse 2 poetry competition for "Poems for the Flood"
- 1996: Bronwen Wallace Award for Poetry, given bi-annually (in alternate years, given for fiction) to the most promising Canadian poet under 35 who has not yet published a first book
- 1993: Poetry winner of the Norma Epstein Award for Creative Writing, awarded by University College, University of Toronto for a manuscript written by a student at a Canadian university or college
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