Award Prize Year Description First Place International Creative Arts Award 2008 Annual award sponsored by the Polish American Historical Association (a member of the American Historical Association) recognizes the international contributions in the field of creative arts (music, visual arts, film, and literature) by individuals who have promoted an awareness of the Polish experience. Finalist and publication Top finalist in national competition and will be published in late, 2008. 2007 Chapbook, Ten Songs from Bulgaria, Cervena Barva Press Honorable Mention New Millennium Writings competition 2007 For poem "Contrapuntal: Negative Space" Second place Detroit Working Writers Annual Spring Writing Awards 2007 For the poem "Climbing Cherry Trees" Finalist 22nd Annual ArtServe Michigan Governor's Awards for Arts & Culture 2007 For the category of Michigan Artist Honorable mention and finalist status Honorable mention and finalist status 2006 National Poetry Competition awarded to two poems in the Ekphrasis Award 1st runner-up in The Laureate Prize for Poetry 2006 LN-F poem "The Field Behind the Dying Father's House" was selected to be 1st runner-up in the  The Laureate Prize for Poetry sponsored by The National Poetry Review Honor Finalist, Ohio Book Award in Poetry 2003 Sponsored by the Ohioana Library Association Honor Poet Laureate of Grand Rapids Click HERE to read Grand Rapids Press Article. 2003 Linda Nemec Foster selected as 1st Poet Laureate of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan Grant ArtServe Michigan Creative Artist Grant in Literature 2001   Nominee Academy of American Poets Laughlin Award Nomination for a Book of Poems 2000 For Amber Necklace from Gdansk. Honors Outstanding Alumni Award, Aquinas College 2000 Grand Rapids, MI Fellowship National Writers' Voice Project Poetry Fellowship 1999   Finalist Finalist, Poet's Prize for the book, Living in the Fire Nest 1997 Sponsored by the Nicholas Roerich Museum. Cited by juror Colette Inez. Honors Outstanding Alumni Award in the Arts, Trinity High School 1997 Garfield Heights, OH Winner First place, National Women's Poetry Competition, Oakland Community College 1997   Hon. Mention The Atlanta Review, International Poetry Competition 1996   Winner Creative Artist Award in Poetry, Arts Foundation of Michigan 1996   Winner Second place, National Poetry Competition sponsored by Northwoods Journal 1995   Winner First place, National Women's Poetry Competition, Oakland Community College 1995   Grant Creative Artist Grant in Literature, Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs 1990   Grant Creative Artist Grant in Literature, Michigan Council for the Arts 1984   Winner Pushcart Prize 1984 Pushcart Prize Anthology VIII Nominee Over 20 poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize 1982 - 2003