Grace Cavalieri is the author of 23 works of poetry and 26 produced plays. Cavalieri's many awards include The George Garrett Award for Service to Literature from the national Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP); a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Washington Independent Review of Books; two Allen Ginsburg awards for poetry; the Paterson Prize; the inaugural Folger Shakespeare Library's Columbia Book Award for Service to Literature; and a Silver Medal from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.