• 2010 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Temper,
• 2008 AWP Donald Hall Poetry Prize

• "Mystery Ending With a Girl in a Field", AGNI
• "Mystery of the Noise the Air Makes When Milled", AGNI
• "FIRST DANCE EPITHALAMION"; "WHAT THE DEAD DREAM", Story South, Fall 2004

• Temper, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009, ISBN 9780822960409
• Evasion BWR Chapbook Series, 2008

Anthologies

• Best New Poets 2005 Editors George Garrett, Jeb Livingood, Samovar Press and Meridian, 2005, ISBN 9780976629603
• Best New Poets 2007 Editors Natasha Trethewey, Jeb Livingood, University of Virginia Press, 2007, ISBN 9780976629627
• Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis and Wonderland, Editor Richard Peabody, Paycock, ISBN 0931181224

Bachmann’s poems grabbed me because of their violence...was I just looking for it?...but it was a violence which was often implied, a sense of foreboding, a mood often just beneath the surface, rather than Wertmuller’s horrifying image of a family of ten being gunned down in a mass grave. And it’s not that I don’t like Wertmuller’s films...I do. I guess this particular evening I just wanted the striptease, not the naked body; the faint hint of heat, not the bottle of Tabasco.