- 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Fiction Book Award. For a novel manuscript.
- Best American Essays 2022. .Ed. Alexander Chee. “Emerson’s Egypt” cited in “Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2021.” Selected by Robert Atwan.
- 2022 Dzanc Short Story Collection Prize: Longlist Honoree.
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 2018 Creative Writing Fellowship in Prose. Personal Statement
- New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) 2018, Fiction Fellowship. State funded grant awarded by discipline and based on manuscript submission.
- Best American Short Stories, 2016.Ed. Junot Diaz. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. October 4, 2016. “The Interrogator Recites a Love Song,” cited on list of“Other Distinguished Stories of 2015.”
- National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer Scholar. Summer Institute: “Transcendentalism and Reform in the Age of Emerson, Thoreau, and Fuller.” Concord, MA. July 12-25, 2015.