Toi Derricotte

Awards

 

• The PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry (2012)

 

• Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement for    Previous Winners of The Paterson Poetry Prize, The Undertaker’s    Daughter (2012)

 

• Distinguished Daughter of Pennsylvania (2009)

 

• Distinguished Pioneering of the Arts Award from the United    Black Artists

 

• Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award from Poets &    Writers, Inc. (2008)

 

• The Distinguished Alumni/Alumnae Award from New York    University Graduate School of Arts and Science (2008)

 

• The Elizabeth Kray Award for Service to Poetry from Poets    House (2008)

 

• The Rockefeller Foundation, fellowship (2006)

 

• The Guggenheim Foundation, fellowship (2004)

 

• The Pushcart Prize (1998)

 

  

 

 

• The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, The Black Notebooks (1997)

 

• The Black Caucus of the American Library Association Award    in nonfiction, The Black Notebooks (1997)

 

• Nominated for the PEN Martha Albrand Award for the Art of    the Memoir, The Black Notebooks (1997)

 

• New York Times Notable Book of the Year, The Black Notebooks    (1997)

 

• Winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize, Tender (1997)

 

• The National Endowment for the Arts, fellowship in poetry    (1990)

 

• The Columbia Book Award from the Poetry Committee Book of    the Greater Washington, D.C., Captivity (1989)

 

• The Pushcart Prize (1989)

 

• The National Endowment for the Arts, fellowship in poetry    (1985)

 

• The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from Poetry Society of    America.