• Notable Essay of 2015, Best American Essays, 2016 for "Wrath" (The Los Angeles Review)
• Literature Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2015
• Special Mention, Pushcart Prize XXXVII, Best of the Small Presses, 2013
• Goldenberg Prize in Fiction, Bellevue Literary Review, 2011
• Residency Fellowship, Can Serrat International Artists’ Center, El Bruc, Spain, 2010
• Literature Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2007
• Residency Fellowship, Blue Mountain Center for the Creative Arts, Blue Mountain Lake, NY 2007
• New York Times Foundation Fellowship, 2006
• Residency Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, 2006
• Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, New York, NY, 2005
• Residency Fellowship, Hedgebrook Foundation, Whidbey Island, WA, 2005