Awards and Service Positions

• Lindsay Young Professor, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2006-2011
• James R. and Nell W. Cunningham Outstanding Teaching Award, College of Arts & Sciences Teaching Award, 2010
• Finalist, UT National Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, 2008 and 2010
• Chancellor’s Academic Outreach Award, University of Tennessee, 2007
• Hodges Chair for Distinguished Teaching, Department of English, 2003-2006
• East Tennessee Literary Hall of Fame in Poetry, 2005
• YWCA Tribute to Women, Woman of Achievement in the Arts, 2000
• Chancellor’s Research and Creative Achievement Award, 2002
• Panelist, City Arts Grant, Knoxville Arts & Culture Alliance, 2008
• Arts Reach Grant, Knoxville Council on the Arts, 1998
• Tennessee Arts Commission Literary Fellowship in Poetry, 1989
• UT National Alumni Outstanding Teacher Award, 2000
• Amon Carter Evans Tennessee Tomorrow Award, 1983
• NDEA Title IV Fellowship, Rutgers, 1968-1971
• Honorary Woodrow Wilson Fellow, 1968
• Phi Beta Kappa, 1968

She teaches poetry workshops in Auvillar, France, for the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.