 Gaspar's books have won many awards.His first collection of poetry, "The Holyoke," won the 1988 Morse Poetry Prize (selected by Mary Oliver); "Mass for the Grace of a Happy Death " won the 1994 Anhinga Prize for Poetry (selected by Joy Harjo); "A Field Guide to the Heavens" won the 1999 Brittingham Prize in Poetry (selected by Robert Bly; his novel, "Leaving Pico," won the California Book Award For First Fiction, and the Barnes & Noble Discovery Award., and Stealing Fatima was a Massbook of the year in fiction (Massachusetts Center for the Book).He has published poems in numerous journals and magazines, including "The Nation," "Harvard Review," "The American Poetry Review," "Kenyon Review" "The Hudson Review," "The Georgia Review," "Ploughshares," "Prairie Schooner," "Mid-American Review," and "Gettysburg Review."