Awards + HOnors
2023 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation
2022 Cole Swensen Prize for Translation, Denver Quarterly
Poet in Residence, SWWIM
Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women, 2021
AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers of 2020
Gulf Coast Prize in Translation, 2020
2020 Travel Fellowship, American Literary Translators Association
2020 Artist Grant, Foundation for Contemporary Arts
Writer in Residence, Hermitage Artist Retreat
Best New Poets, selected by Kyle Dargan
Emerging Artist Award, Kentucky Arts Council
Emerging Leader in the Arts Award, Fund for the Arts and the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation
Artist Enrichment Grant, Kentucky Foundation for Women
Writer in Residence, Vermont Studio Center
Rising Star in Publishing, Publishers Weekly Star Watch
"Best Poet," Louisville Magazine's "Best of Louisville" issue, chosen by Kiki Petrosino
Poet in Residence, Blackacre Conservancy
Sara Jean McDowell Award, University of Louisville
National Ten-Minute Play Contest, finalist, Humana Festival of New American Plays
National Ten-Minute Play Award, Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival
PRESS
Sarabande Books executive director succession announcement
Heating the Outdoors named a finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Translation
Heating the Outdoors named a finalist for the 2023 Big Other Book Award for Poetry
Heating the Outdoors reviewed for The Poetry Foundation
Heating the Outdoors recommended by CBC
Heating the Outdoors reviewed for Publishers Weekly
Selection from Heating the Outdoors featured at Poetry Daily
Interview with Naoko Fujimoto for Tupelo Quarterly
SPAWN reviewed for Publishers Weekly
SPAWN reviewed for the American Literary Translators Association
SPAWN featured at The Poetry Foundation
SPAWN featured in Publishers Weekly
SPAWN a Small Press Distribution Poetry Bestseller for March 2020
SPAWN named “Most Anticipated Books by Indigenous Authors” at LitHub
SPAWN reviewed for The Toronto Star
SPAWN reviewed for Anomaly
SPAWN reviewed for Quill & Quire
SPAWN featured in Small Press Distribution’s “SPD Handpicked”
SPAWN reviewed for The Kenyon Review
SPAWN featured in “29 works of Canadian poetry to watch for in spring 2020” from CBC/Radio-Canada
“Smoketown dawn” anthologized in The Wonder Code, a Kirkus Best Indie Poetry of 2019 winner
Selection from SPAWN featured at Poetry Daily
Selection from SPAWN featured at The Kenyon Review editors’ blog
Reading List featured at The Poetry Foundation editors’ blog
“A Billion Things in One” featured at The Poetry Foundation discussion guide