Writer of Note Grant, The de Groot Foundation, 2024

Walter E. Dakin Fellowship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2024

First Place, Tucson Festival of Books Literary Awards, 2022

Nebraska Book Award, 2021

Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, 2020

Creative Writing Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts, 2016

Silver Medal, Independent Publisher Book Awards, 2013

Individual Artist Fellowship in Literature, Nebraska Arts Council, 2012

Silver Pen Award, Nevada Writers Hall of Fame, 2011

International Walter Scott Prize for Short Stories, 2010

Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, 2009

Stanley Elkin Scholarship, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 2008

Dorothy and Granville Hicks Residency in Literature, Yaddo, 2005

Third Prize, College Fiction Contest, Playboy, 2004