Grace Cavalieri - Literary Awards

Literary Awards

Cavalieri has received numerous literary awards. Highlights include:

• The Paterson Literary Review Lifetime Achievement Award for Service to Poetry
• The Columbia Award
• The Pen-Syndicated Fiction Award
• The Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award
• Bordighera Poetry Award for Water on the Sun
• Paterson Poetry Prize for What I Would Do for Love: Poems in the Voice of Mary Wollstonecraft
• The Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry
• The National Endowment for the Arts
• The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal
• The National Commission on Working Women
• The American Association of University Women
• The Paterson Award for Literary Excellence for Anna Nicole: Poems
• The Dragonfly Press Award for Outstanding Literary Achievement
• The DC Poet Laureate Special Award in Poetry
• The DC Public Humanities Award
• The West Virginia Women in Arts Award

She has enjoyed several state arts and humanities council awards and fellowships. She received the inaugural Columbia Award from the Folger Shakespeare Library Poetry Committee for "significant contribution to poetry."