- First Prize, the Good Men Book Project, for “Iowa Black Dirt,” a memoir, 2009
- Finalist, 2009 Penelope Niven Creative Nonfiction Award for “Excelsior”
- Snake Nation Press, First Prize, 2009, for Ballsy (declined)
- Finalist, 2008, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner-Wisdom Novella Award, for “Jody’s Run”
- GS Sharat Chandra Prize for Fiction, 2008 for Dangerous Places
- Finalist, 2007 Iowa Review Award in Nonfiction for “Love Has No Pride”
- Ucross Fellow
- Yaddo Fellow
- Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Fellow
- Bread Loaf Scholar
- three-time recipient of P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Awards
- winner, 2006 & 2007, the Boston Fiction Festival,
- Sarah Russo Prize 2005, for Exile Studies for “gimme shelter”
- Finalist, 2004, H.E. Francis Literary Competition
- Finalist, 2003, Sandstone Prize in Short Fiction
- Finalist, 1997 & 1999, The Chesterfield Film Company Writer’s Project
- Semi-finalist, 1994, Novel in Progress, The Heekin Group Foundation
- Finalist, 1992 & 1993, semi-finalist, 2006, Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Prize
- honorable mention, 1989, 1992, hemingway days fiction competition
- Finalist, 1992, AWP Short Fiction Prize
- Finalist, 1985, Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Competition
- “Outstanding Writer” in Pushcart Prize
- First Prize, Minnesota Voices Project Competition for suspicious origins
- Bernice Kavinoky Isaacson Award
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