Mary Jo Firth Gillett
Honors and Awards
2013 Winner, Hill-Stead Sunken Garden Poetry Prize, publication of a chapbook, Dance
Like a Flame
2012 Kresge Artist Fellowship in the Literary Arts
2007 Farbman Scholarship for Excellence in Teaching, Springfed Arts
2006 First Book Award, Crab Orchard Series, Southern University Press, Soluble Fish
2004 Winner, Poetry West Chapbook Contest, Chandeliers of Fish
2002 Michigan Creative Artist Grant
1999 Winner, Small Poetry Press, Select Poets Series Chapbook Contest, Tiger in a Hairnet
1998 Winner, Writer's Voice of Metropolitan Detroit Chapbook Contest, Not One
1998 Winner, N.Y. Open Voice National Poetry Award, The Writer's Voice of West Side Y
Five Pushcart Prize Nominations
Various other poetry contest awards and scholarships have been received from Vermont College, Nimrod, The MacGuffin, Ropewalk Writer's Retreat, Third Coast Conference (WMU), Detroit Women Writers', etc.