Brown Foundation Fellow, Dora Maar House; Ménerbes, France, 2010.
Fellowship to translate play by Marcel Pagnol from Aurora Theatre, 2004.
Faculty Development Grant, California College of the Arts, 2002-03.
California Arts Council Artist Fellowship in Poetry, 1993-94.
Awards
Nominated for Outstanding Production of a Solo Show by Theatre Bay Area for Colette Uncensored (coauthored play), 2016.
The Celestine Award for Poetry, Holy Names University, 2015.
PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize for Earthlight by André Breton, cotranslated from the French with Bill Zavatsky, 1994.
Bay Area Book Reviewers Association (BABRA) Award for translation of Horace by George Sand, 1996.
Chancellor’s Outstanding Staff Award for founding the Lunch Poems Reading Series; UC Berkeley, 1997. Nominated by Robert Hass.
Lili Fabilli-Eric Hoffer Essay Prize, UC Berkeley; 2001 and 1999.
Nominated for Pushcart Prize for poem in Tiger’s Eye in 2014, in Parthenon West in 2007, and in Fourteen Hills in 2004.
Nominated for PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize and for Northern California Book Association Award in Translation for French version of Green Wheat by Colette, 2005.
Tanka Splendor Award for best tanka sequence written in English, 2006.
