Sabbatical Leave for Writing and Research — Pepperdine University — Academic Year 2021-2022
Selected as a ‘Living Legend’ by Malibu Coast Lifestyle Magazine — June 2021
Award for Service — Malibu Arts Commission — May 25, 2021
The Work of a Genius: A Verse Biography of Albert Einstein — Released: February 5, 2021
Appointed Malibu Poet Laureate — October 12, 2020
The Man I Was Supposed to Be: Poems — Released as an E-Book: April 23, 2020
Appointed Visiting Faculty to Pepperdine University’s International Program in Lausanne, Switzerland — Academic Year 2017-2018
Research Travel to Berlin, Wittenberg, Bern, Lausanne, and Geneva — January 2015
Sabbatical Leave for Writing and Research — Pepperdine University — Academic Year 2014-2015
Research Grant (to conduct research at Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study) — Seaver College — Summer 2014
Awarded Tenure and Promotion to Associate Professor at Pepperdine University — August 2013
Endowed Research Fellowship (to conduct research in Switzerland on Albert Einstein) — Seaver College — Summer 2012
Awarded the Sozopol Fiction Fellowship (Bulgaria) — May 2011
Research Grant (to conduct research in England) — Seaver College — Summer 2010
Research Grant (to conduct research in Russia on Leo Tolstoy) — Seaver College — Summer 2009
Awarded the NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry — January 2009
The Man I Was Supposed to Be: Poems — Released: March 27, 2008
Appointed Assistant Professor and Director of Creative Writing at Pepperdine University — August 2007
Awarded the Stegner Fellowship — Stanford University — 2005-2007
Awarded the Tennessee Williams Scholarship to the Sewanee Writers’ Conference — July 2003