Honours and Awards
- Anne Elder Prize for "Dumbstruck" 1996
- Short-listing of "Each Clear Night" WA Premiers Poetry Award 2000
- Patricia Hackett Prize for "Skins" in Westerly 2005
- Shortlisting of "The Edge of the World" for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for First Book 2007
- Short-listing of "Therapy like Fish: new and selected poems" ACT Judith Wright Prize 2008
- Patricia Hackett Prize for "Sleep without Cameras" Westerly Dec 2010
- Long listing of "The Stubborn Murmur: The Armenian Genocide and After" in the Calibre Essay Prize 2010
- Australia Council Grant for Established Writers, New Work, Fiction, 2010–2011
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