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Awards, 2018-2020

  • Nominated for The Pushcart Prize by Trio House Press

  • Nominated for the K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award

  • Nominated by Glass Poetry for Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net Anthology

  • Invited to participate in “From My Window…And Other Places” by the Center for the Humanities and the Teaching and Learning Center

  • Nominated by [PANK] Magazine for Sundress Publications’ Best or the Net Anthology

  • Awarded a Light Relief Grant from The Graduate Center’s Lost & Found initiative

  • Awarded a Mellon Foundation Public Humanities PublicsLab Fellowship

  • Finalist in Locked Horn Press’ Urgency Chapbook Prize

FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS, 2018-2021

Reviews of barnes’ work

pre-2018 awards

  • 2018: Awarded a Five Year Doctoral Fellowship by The Graduate Center, CUNY’s English PhD Program

  • 2017: The Mark My Body Draws in Light mentioned in Ariel Francisco’s interview with Speaking With Marvels

  • 2017: Featured Artist: Les Femmes Folles

  • 2016: Featured Writer: The Plath Poetry Project

  • 2014: Brooklyn Poets Poet of the Week

  • 2014: Cover Design Winner of The Looking Glass Magazine’s Cover Design Contest

  • 2013: Poetry Ireland Introductions Series Interview with Philip Cummins

  • 2012: Student Leadership Award from Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2012: Carnegie Mellon Adamson Award: Poetry, Second Place

  • 2012: Nominated by English Department at Carnegie Mellon for Gretchen Goldsmith Langford Award

  • 2012: Hungry Poets Prize from West Virginia University

  • 2011: Academy of American Poets Prize from Carnegie Mellon University

  • 2011: New York Writer’s Institute Scholarship from Skidmore College

  • 2011: Gertrude Gordon Journalism Prize from the Pittsburgh Women’s Press Club

  • 2010: First Place in the Albion Review Poetry Contest from Albion College

  • 2010: First Place in the Three Rivers Review Poetry Prize

  • 2009: First Place in the Borders Open Door Poetry Prize

  • 2007: Mom Discovers Another Poet In The House in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette