HONORS

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  • Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY Awards) silver medal for Best Regional Fiction: Asia/Australian/New Zealand/Aoteroa/Pacific Rim ~ The Australian, Dzanc Books (2025)

  • Best American Essays 2022, Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction selection (Ed. Alexander Chee) ~ “On Beckett and Writing With a Brain Disease,” Catapult (2021)

  • The Pushcart Prize XL: Best of the Small Presses, Special Mention ~ “An August in the Early 2000’s,” Wigleaf (2017)

  • Wassaic Artists Residency Fellowship (2016)

  • Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions 2013 ~ “Anthem,” PANK (Judge: Danielle Evans)

  • Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions 2013 Longlist ~ “Guide to a Childhood Diversion,” Web Conjunctions (Judge: Danielle Evans)

  • Summer Literary Seminars’ Graywolf Prize, Scholarship Recipient (Judge: Mary Gaitskill) (2012)

  • Wigleaf's Top 50 (Very) Short Fictions 2012 ~ “Greyhounds,” Web Conjunctions (Judge: Dan Chaon)

  • Wilton Moore Lockwood Prize, Bard College (2009)

  • Mary McCarthy Prize, Bard College (2008)