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selected honors . . .
- Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship (fiction), 2022–23
- B. Frank Vogel Scholarship in Fiction, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 2022
- Bennett Fellowship (fiction), Phillips Exeter Academy, 2021–22
- Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship (fiction), Finalist, 2021
- Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award (fiction), 2020
- Emerging Writers Fellowship, Center for Fiction, 2018
- New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship (fiction), 2015
- National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Literature Fellowship (fiction), 2014
- Africana Creative Nonfiction Award, Pan-African Literary Forum (PALF), 2008
- Illinois Arts Council Fellowship (creative nonfiction), 2008
- Fulbright Fellowship (research), Ghana, West Africa, 2002–03
fellowship residencies . . .
- Yaddo, NY, 2022
- MacDowell, NH, 2019
- Anderson Center, MN, 2019
- Dickinson House (Henry James Grant), Belgium, 2017
- Dickinson House (Raveel Grant), Belgium, 2015
- Hambidge (NEA Fellowship), GA, 2014
- Vermont Studio Center (Rona Jaffe Foundation Fellowship), VT, 2010
- VCCA, VA, 2008
- Hedgebrook, WA, 2007