James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers

Weatherford Award from Berea College

National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship 2016

Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award 2016

  Satellites: Stories Semifinalist Iowa Prize 2016

Satellites: Stories Finalist, LSU’s Yellow Shoe Fiction Prize 2015

 “Ground Down” Notables list, Best American Sports Writing 2013

  Narrative Magazine's  “Twenty Best New Writers” 2011

    Peter Taylor Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference 2009