Poetry Accolades

  • 2018 April "Illiteracy" by Scott E. Green & Herb Kauderer chosen as one of six 'editor's choice' poems for Star*Line 42.2 (which contains 97 poems)
  • 2018 February "The First Battle of the Puffer War" was nominated for the Rhysling Award as best long speculative poem of 2017.
  • 2018 February "What Neighbors Do" was nominated for the Rhysling Award as best long speculative poem of 2017.
  • 2018 January "My Response to Your Mayday Call" by David Clink & Herb Kauderer was nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 2017.
  • 2017 November "My Response to Your Mayday Call" by David Clink & Herb Kauderer was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poem in a small press publication.
  • 2017 November "mid-night ghosts" was nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poem in a small press publication.
  • 2017 September "Watches" selected for Bewildering Stories 3QR, an editor's choice distinction.
  • 2017 September "War Games" written with Scott E. Green selected for Bewildering Stories 3QR, an editor's choice distinction.
  • 2017 “Epitaph for an Ogre” was nominated for the Dwarf Star Award as best short short speculative poem of 2016.
  • 2017 "Answers" WON the 31st Asimov's Readers' Awards.
  • 2017 "Answers" nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 2016.
  • 2017 "Soft Collision" by Scott E. Green & Herb Kauderer named a finalist for the 78th AnLab Readers' Awards.
  • 2017 "Cobblestone Dragon" nominated for the Rhysling Award as best long speculative poem of 2016.
  • 2016 "hard copy" nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 2015.
  • 2016 "luddite's dream" nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 2015.
  • 2016 The Book of Answers nominated a second time for the Elgin Award as best speculative poetry chapbook.  Books are eligible for the Elgin for two years.
  • 2015 "microwords" nominated for the Pushcart Prize for poem in a small press publication.
  • 2015 “a distant air” nominated for the Best of The Net as best poem first published on the internet for 2015.
  • 2015 The Book of Answers nominated for the Elgin Award as best speculative poetry chapbook.
  • 2015 “private source” nominated for the Dwarf Star Award for short speculative poetry.
  • 2015 “Restoration” nominated for the Dwarf Star Award for short speculative poetry.
  • 2015 “Words Not Red” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best long speculative poem of 2014 by SFPA
  • 2015 “Saline to Atlantis” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best long speculative poem of 2014 by SFPA
  • 2015 “After ‘Signs You’re in Trouble’” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 2014 by SFPA
  • 2015 “After ‘Dark Matter’” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 2014 by SFPA
  • 2008 “A Twisted Certainty” won the Ewaipanoma Sonnet Contest
  • 2008 “True Selves” finished third in the Dragon Soup Poetry Contest
  • 2005 Fall Received Hilbert College Arts Grant
  • 1998 “Wedding Songs” won the Worldcon Poetry Slam
  • 1996 “Survivor” given Honorable Mention in The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror Ninth Annual Collection edited by Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling (1996 St. Martin’s Press)
  • 1995 Nominated at Best Poet of 1994 by SPGA
  • 1993 “Arcade” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best long speculative poem of 1992 by SFPA
  • 1992 Sycamore Award received for historical writing of both prose and poetry
  • 1992 “Mutant” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 1991 by SFPA
  • 1992 “Names” nominated for the Rhysling Award as best short speculative poem of 1991 by SFPA
  • 1991 Nominated as Best New Poet of 1990 by SPWAO