February, 2025
Received $25,000 grant from MSU’s Humanities and Arts Research Program for work on a full-length poetry collection
January, 2025
New poem published in Cagabi
October, 2024
Winner, Editor’s Choice Award for “After Divorce,” Charles Simic Memorial Prize
August, 2024
New poem published in The Inflectionist Review
July, 2024
Finalist, Charles Simic Memorial Prize
May, 2024
Finalist, Arts & Letters Rumi Poetry Prize
April, 2024
Creative writing panel accepted to the Italian American Studies Association Symposium in Fiesole, Italy (with Alan Gravano and Marco Rafalà)
February, 2024
Two new poems published in Ovunque Siamo
November, 2023
Accepted to South Porch Artists Residency
June, 2023
“Home Altar” chapbook published and available for order!
May, 2023
Accepted to Key West Literary Seminar Workshop with Marie Howe
April, 2023
“O Body of Bliss” book launch, view HERE!
Feb, 2023
“O Body of Bliss” book birthday, February 14
New poem in Radar Poetry paired with artwork by Stela Zaharieva
Dec, 2022
“O Body of Bliss” poetry collection available for pre-order
“Portrait of Girlhood with Small-Town River and Bar” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Radar Poetry
Aug, 2022
Accepted to Key West Literary Seminar Advanced Poetry Workshop with Cornelius Eady
Named Assistant Poetry Editor of Italian Americana
July, 2022
Poetry panel accepted at The Italian American Studies Association Conference in Pittsburgh (w. Jennifer Martelli and Julia Lisella)
Two new poems published in Shenandoah
February, 2022
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a Contributing Editor
January, 2022
“O Body of Bliss” wins Longleaf Press Book Contest in Poetry
“O Body of Bliss” named finalist for The Cider Press Review Book Award
“When I Contemplate My Existence,” finalist, 2022 Best of the Net Anthology
December, 2021
“My Mother Tells Me She May Have Been the Product of Rape” nominated for The Nina Riggs Poetry Award by The Cincinnati Review
“The Language of Dogs” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Red Wheelbarrow
November, 2021
“Home Altar” wins Keystone Chapbook Prize
“Prayer for Essential Workers” nominated for a Pushcart Prize by Italian Americana
October, 2021
Finalist for The Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize judged by Mark Doty
September, 2021
“O Body of Bliss” named finalist in the Cider Press Review Editors’ Prize
“When I Contemplate My Existence” nominated for Best of the Net 2021 by The Ilanot Review
August, 2021
Longlisted for the Sappho Prize for Women Poets
June, 2021
Offered week-long residency at Rockvale Writers’ Colony
May, 2021
“When They Took My Father’s Body” named finalist for Bellingham Review’s 49th Parallel Award for Poetry
March, 2021
New poem accepted at Valparaiso Poetry Review
Invitation to be Featured Poet in summer 2021 issue of Italian Americana
February, 2021
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a Contributing Editor
New poem in Radar Poetry paired with artwork by Lavar Monroe
January, 2021
Two poems are finalists in Ruminate’s Broadside Poetry Prize
October, 2020
Certo wins first honorable mention in the Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Award
“Limoncello” is featured in Gastronomica
September, 2020
Certo Wins Two Awards for Poetry Collection, article by Michigan State University’s Ilene Davis
Certo wins Lauria-Frasca Poetry Prize, Bordighera Press
August, 2020
Certo wins New American Poetry Prize, New American Press
June, 2020
Certo wins Second Prize in Nimrod International Journal’s Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry judged by Kaveh Akbar
April, 2020
Video reading of “In the Corner of the Living” as part of Lansing Poet Laureate Laura Apol’s Poetry in Place series
August, 2019
Finalist in Sewanee Review Poetry Contest
Finalist in Indiana Review Poetry Prize
Finalist in Cream City Review Summer Prize
February, 2018
Nominated for a Pushcart Prize by a Contributing Editor
Certo Receives $17,000 Humanities and Arts Research Program Grant, article by Michigan State University’s Lauren Knapp
