Awards
Gina Berriault Work-in-Progress Award, Fourteen Hills, 2024
Sustainable Arts Foundation Award, Fall 2014
Massachusetts Cultural Council Fiction/Creative Nonfiction Fellowship, 2014
Artist-in-Residence, I-Park Foundation, East Haddam, Connecticut, 2010
The John Gardner Memorial Prize for Fiction, Harpur Palate, 2005
Firebox Fiction Contest, Second Prize, Night Train, 2004
University of Arizona Foundation Award, 2001
Short Fiction
Holy Family, Day One, November 2015
Delivery Boy, Baltimore Review, Spring 2013
An Extraordinary Case, Word Riot, February 2013
A Different Language, Harpur Palate, Volume 5, Issue I, 2005
The Liver Speaks, Night Train, Issue III, 2004
Nonfiction
Jail Bait, Ploughshares Blog, December 2017
The Privilege of Interpretation, Ploughshares Blog, November 2017
Olive Kitteridge and My Mother, Ploughshares Blog, October 2017
Girls Looking in the Mirror, Ploughshares Blog, October 2017
The Space Where God Used to Be, Ploughshares Blog, September 2017
Doughnuts Oozing Their Secrets: Emotion by Jo Ann Beard, Ploughshares Blog, July 2017
George Saunders, Alice Munro, and the Opposite Poles of New Yorker Fiction, Ploughshares Blog, July 2017
An Interview with Lauren Grodstein, Author of Our Short History, Dead Darlings, May 2017
Sophie’s Choice and Radical Acceptance, Ploughshares blog, May 2017
An Interview with Lauren Grodstein, Author of Our Short History, Dead Darlings, May 2017
Shirley Jackson, Madeleine L’Engle, and Motherhood, Ploughshares blog, April 2017
Mistresses, Written by Women, Ploughshares blog, March 2017
Ann Patchett’s Commonwealth Isn’t Just for Suburban Moms’ Book Clubs, Ploughshares blog, February 2017
The Ambiguous Epiphany, Ploughshares blog, January 2017
Christmas with Alice Munro, Ploughshares blog, December 2016
The Female Gaze and the Same Old Songs, Plougshares blog, November 2016
Fracking, Glove Making, and Elevator Inspection: Industry in Novels, Ploughshares blog, October 2016
Serial, Timelines, and Fiction, Ploughshares blog, September 2016
My Uncle’s Books, Ploughshares blog, July 2016
Time and Opening Chapters: Gaining Trust, Ploughshares blog, June 2016
When Parents Die: William Maxwell’s So Long, See You Tomorrow and Claire Messud’s The Woman Upstairs, Ploughshares blog, May 2016
The Art of the Sad Birthday, Ploughshares blog, March 2016 (also featured in LitHub Daily on April 1 and in their “Best of the Week” newsletter April 2.)
Clever Girl, Boyhood, and the Importance of Blank Spaces, Ploughshares blog, March 2016
Grace Paley’s “Wants”: Activism and Civic Involvement for Writers, Ploughshares blog, February 2016
Majestic Endings, Ploughshares blog, January 2016
The Trouble with Endings, Dead Darlings guest post, November 2015