Awards
- 2022 awardee QRAA Ekphrastic Challenge, My Athenaeum.
- 2021 inaugural AAALS Poetry Prize (poem to be published in Antipodes 35.1)
- 2020 Finalist, joanneburns microlit award
- 2019 Finalist, joanneburns microlit award
- 2019 Varuna Poetry Residency
- 2019, Long List, Vice-Chancellors Poetry Prize
- 2015 inaugural Philip Bacon Ekphrasis Award
- 2014, Long List, Newcastle Poetry Prize
- 2014, Short List, FourW poetry prize
- 2013, Long List, Montreal Poetry Prize
- 2013 Hawthornden Fellow, Scotland.
- An Absence of Saints was shortlisted for the 2010/2011 Mary Gilmore Award.
- 2011 Wesley Michel Wright Prize for an extract of poems in a published collection from An Absence of Saints.
- 2010 Anne Elder Poetry Award for a first book of poetry first published in Australia was given to An Absence of Saints.
- 2009 Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize for an unpublished manuscript of poetry for An Absence of Saints.