Awards Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship Grant, 2022 Notable Travel Writing listing for “To the Antarctic Researcher with the Photograph on His Desk” in Best American Travel Writing 2020 Goldfarb Family Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fall 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation Fellowship, Fall 2012 Sozopol Fiction Fellowship, Elizabeth Kostova Foundation, May-June 2010 Winner, 2006 Indiana Review Fiction Prize, for “The Dog,” chosen by Charles Baxter Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, 2004 Distinguished Essay listing for “Siberian Wallpaper” in Best American Essays 1997 Residencies Monson Arts Hawthornden Castle, Scotland MacDowell Brush Creek Arists’ Residency Marble House Project Willapa Bay AiR Virginia Center for the Creative Arts The Hermitage Artist Retreat The Yaddo Corporation Art Omi: Writers Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center
