Awards and Honors
- The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Award, 1991
- Academy of American Poets Prize, 1991
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1994 (As Claudia Emerson Andrews)
- Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1995 and 2002
- University of Mary Washington Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 2003
- Witter Bynner Fellowship from Library of Congress, 2005
- Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008 - 2010
- Library of Virginia Virginia Women in History, 2009
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011
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