 Levi is the recipient of the Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets for her first book, "Once I Gazed at You in Wonder".She has also received two awards form the Poetry Society of America, the George Bogin Memorial Award, and the Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award.Prior to teaching at Hunter College, Levi also taught at Sarah Lawrence College and the Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y in New York City.