Honors & Awards
2022 Uncertain Acrobats named a finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award and a “Must-Read” selection
2022 My poem for Rachel Carson in response to a woodcut by artist Julie Lapping Rivera featured in juried group exhibition “Another World is Possible” at A.P.E. Gallery
2022 Uncertain Acrobats named an Eric Hoffer Book Award Category Finalist
2022 Uncertain Acrobats featured in Poetry + Fungus, a beautiful Instagram project curated by Dayna Patterson, matching book covers with gorgeous mushroom pix
2022 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by the Pushcart Board of Contributing Editors
2021 Los Angeles Poet Laureate Lynne Thompson read my poem “Ascension” from Uncertain Acrobats on her weekly poetry podcast “Poems on Air” for the Los Angeles Public Library
2021 Uncertain Acrobats was “Swifted” by Taylor Swift as Books, an Instagram project curated by Amy Lorraine Long that pairs Taylor Swift pictures with book covers
2021 Mass Poetry Ekphrastic Gallery contest, winner for poem “Distanced” and paired with Thomas Calimari painting “The Birch on the Shore” in online gallery and printed broadside
2020 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, finalist for poetry manuscript Stores of Honey.Time Machines.Amber.
2019 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poem “Wellfleet,” published in Parks & Points
2019 Poem “Golden Shovel Full of Darkness, Southern Flowers, and Moondust,” semi-finalist in Tinderbox’s Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize
2019 Poem “Vermont” received honorable mention in the Slate Roof Press Broadside Contest
2019 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, semifinalist for poetry manuscript Stores of Honey.Time Machines.Amber.
2019 Granted Straw Dog Writers Guild writing residency at Patchwork Farms
2018 The Ohio State University Press/The Journal Wheeler Prize for Poetry, semifinalist for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2018 Codhill Poetry Award quarterfinalist for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2018 Finalist in the Joy Harjo Poetry Contest through Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts for poem “Goldilocks”
2018 Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Prize, finalist for poetry manuscript Stores of Honey.Time Machines.Amber.
2018 Hillary Gravendyk Prize, first runner up (national) for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2018 Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize, semifinalist for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2018 ILA Rita Dove Award in Poetry, finalist for poem “Unearthing and Burying My Old Friend with a Golden Shovel”
2018 Fish Poetry Prize, long-listed for poem “Echolocation”
2017 Nominated for a Pushcart Prize for poem “Malum,” published in Mom Egg Review
2017 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, semifinalist for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2017 The Word Works Washington Prize, semifinalist for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2016 Sundress Publications Open Reading Period, semifinalist for collaborative manuscript How the Letters Invent Us, written in conversation with Elizabeth Paul
2016 Naugatuck River Review’s Narrative Poetry Contest, semifinalist for poem “What I Remember About Heidi”
2016 Crab Orchard Series in Poetry First Book Award, semifinalist for poetry manuscript Uncertain Acrobats
2016 Yemassee Poetry Prize, runner-up for poem “Seneca Deer”
2015 Poem “Alita Darcy” selected as one of 12 poems to accompany juried art exhibition with the theme “Motion-Emotion” and featured at Northampton Arts Council Biennial Poetry Reading
2015 Fish Poetry Prize, long-listed for poem “Book of Changes”
2014 Hedgerow Books, honorable mention for poetry manuscript Say the Marsh
2014 Poem “Alita Darcy” featured on “Poetry à la Carte” radio program
2014 Naugatuck River Review’s Narrative Poetry Contest, semifinalist for poem “Kimona”
2013 Fish Poetry Prize, long-listed for poem “Without You, I’m an Out-of-Work Engineer”
2013 Connecticut Poetry Award, honorable mention for poem “Winslow’s Women of Cullercoats”
2013 Women’s National Book Association Poetry Award, first place for poem “Late October Light”
2009 Paradise Poetry Prize, honorable mention for poem “Modest Joy”
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Susan Tyler
Hi Rebecca– This site looks great! Congrats! Susan
rebecca hart olander
Thank you, Susan!