"I would like to thank poets and mentors Philip Schultz, Mary Stewart Hammond, Frazier Russell, and playwright Spence Porter for their friendship and support.  I am also grateful to the editors of the following publications, where my poems, sometimes in earlier versions, have appeared or will appear, and the judges and staff of poetry contests, listed below, who have granted me awards." -Paula Brancato

	2008 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Prize for Poetry – “Her Grandfather”
	pacificREVIEW 2007-2008 and 2007 Brushfire Chapbook Award selected by Ilya Kaminsky – “Dar a Luz”, “She Is”, “El Mozote Massacre El Salvador”, “Mistaken Identity”, “Friend”, “Snarky Aside”, “September 11th”, “Gloria”, “Nothing More to Say”, “A Short Film in 6 Acts”, and “Nana Rose”
	May Swenson Poetry Award 2008 – Club Paradise, poetry book finalist
	The Southern California Anthology 2008: “Demons”
	Mary Anka Press 2008: “Astronaut”
	Ann Stafford Prize and Tennessee Writers Alliance 2007 contest: “Dar a Luz” Honorable mention
	Best of the Net Anthology 2007 – “A Short Film in 6 Acts”
	Lily Press, 2007– “A Short Film in 6 Acts”
	New Millennium Writers Award 2007 – “El Mozote Massacre, El Salvador”
	The Georgetown Review, Summer 2007: “Michael”
	Future Cycle Poetry, Spring 2007: “There is a Peace That Exists in Sky”
	Lily Literary Review, May 2007: “A Short Film in 6 Acts”
	Balticon 41 Award 2007 – “Astronaut”
	The Litchfield Review, Summer 2006: “Isolde”
	Natchez Poetry Anthology 2006: “Bookends” and “Things that Happen in the Dark”
	Rattle Magazine, Spring 2003: “Dar a Luz”
	Inkwell 2002 – “Earth” (aka Astronaut)
	Unisong 2000 finalist (song lyric and composition): “Hand-flowers”
	The Writers Studio, Disconnections 2000: “Love Bites”
	Pacific Northwest Writers Association, 1999: “Michael”, “The Sacrifice”, “Hand-flowers” and “Love Bites”.
	Asheville Writers Workshop award 1998: “Hand-flowers”
	Chester H. Jones Foundation, 1998 National Poetry Competition award winner, 2nd place: “Michael”
	Faulkner Award, 1998: “Love Bites”
	Poetry Guild Award, 1998: “A Marriage”

 

The following poems were performed off-off Broadway, as well as in various venues across the US: “Things That Happen in the Dark”, “Cargo Pilot”, “September 11th”, “Michael” and “Love Bites”