ALICE FRIMAN

Pushcart Prize, 2012Gretchen Warren Award, New England Poetry Club, 2011. First Prize for Poetry, Monadnock Writers Group, anthology on subject of memory, 2010Erika Mumford Prize, New England Poetry Club, 2008Inaugural Fellow, The Georgia Review/Bowers House, Canon, GA, 2007Writer in Residence at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest - Clermont, Kentucky, 2003Commencement Speaker and recipient of honorary doctorate, University of Indianapolis, 2002Named to the Georgia Poetry Circuit, 2001-2002 James Boatwright III Prize for Poetry from Shenandoah, 2001 Sheila Margaret Motton Prize for Zoo, New England Poetry Club, 2001 Miriam Lindberg Israel Poetry for Peace Prize (runner up), 2000 Creative Renewal Fellowship, Arts Council of Indianapolis, 1999-2000 Ezra Pound Poetry Award for Zoo, Truman State University, 1998 Individual Artist Fellowship, Indiana Arts Commission, 1996-97 Firman Houghton Award, New England Poetry Club, 1996 Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience (second place), 1996 Award of Excellence in Poetry, Hopewell Review, 1995 First Prize, Abiko Quarterly International Poetry Competition (Japan), 1994 The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 1993 Teacher of the Year, University of Indianapolis, 1993 Finalist for the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award, Poetry Society of America, 1992 First Place, Start with Art Literary Competition, Indianapolis, 1992 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America, 1990 Erika Mumford Prize, New England Poetry Club, 1990 Midwest Poetry Award, Society for the Study of Midwestern Literature, 1990 Consuelo Ford Award, Poetry Society of America, 1988National Bronze Medalist for teaching excellence, Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (Washington, DC), 1987Commissioned to write commemorative poem, “The Building,” for the opening of the Robert P. Bell Building at Ball State University, 1984 Fellowships include: MacDowell, Yaddo, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Millay Colony, Ragdale, Leighton Art Colony, Kalani Honua, Dorland, Byrdcliffe Writers’ Colony, and Mary Anderson Center.Biographical/Critical articles in Dictionary of Midwestern Literature, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Who’s Who in America.