AWARDS & HONORS

For Nonfiction:

2008 AWP Award finalist for essay manuscript, Coming of (a Certain) Age in New York City

Glasgow Prize for The Riddle Song and Other Rememberings

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship

(Twice awarded) Carter prize for the Essay from Shenandoah

Work selected for The Best American Essays and The Best American Essays College Edition

Five essays listed as “Notable” in Best American Essay series

North Carolina Writers Fellowship in Creative Nonfiction

For Poetry:

Wood Prize from Poetry magazine

Four poems selected for NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor

Work selected for The Best American Poetry series.

MacDowell Colony Residency

North Carolina Writers Fellowship in Poetry

For Fiction:

Pushcart Prize

P.E.N. Syndicated Fiction Award

Bread Loaf Scholarship in fiction

For Teaching:

North Carolina Governor's Award for Excellence in Education