Awards
Fulbright Lecturer in Creative Writing
1995 – 1997, 2007 - 2009
National Endowment for the Arts, Literature Fellowship
2004
PEN International Translation Fund Grant
2004
Lithuanian National Drama Theater prize for best first play
2011
Three Percent Best Translated Poetry Book Award Short List
2010
National Lithuanian
Television and Radio Prize for best books of 2008 for Children
Witter Brynner Award for
Young Literary Translators
2003
Academy of American Poets Award for Student Poetry
1994
New York State Yeats Society Fellowship, Yeats Summer School, Sligo, Ireland
1993
Karl and Franzeska Lederer Stipend for German Literature
1989
Goethe Institute Certificate for Excellence in German
1989
Membership in Delta Phi Alpha: German Honor Society
1989
Douglass College Award for Excellence in Creative Writing
1986
Professional Memberships
Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies
PEN International
Associated Writers Program
Modern Language Association