Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
- Prairie Schooner Award in short fiction for Call Me Ahab, 2008
- Journalism Institute for Minorities, Wayne State University, Teaching and Mentoring Award, 1994
- Basic Skills awarded the Southern Review/Louisiana State University short fiction award
- Associated Writing Programs Award for Short Fiction, 1987
- The San Francisco Foundation's Joseph Henry Jackson Award, 1984
Artist in Residence, Grand Canyon Conservancy, October 2024
Disability Futures Fellowship, 2024
Residency, I-Park, International Artists Residency Program, May 2023
Grants from University of California, Berkeley’s Professional Development Fund, 2022, 2023, 2025
Creative Capital Award, 2020
Residency, Bethany Arts Community, September-October 2019
Holtzbrinck Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, Spring 2019
Residency, MacDowell Colony, April-May 2015
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, September, 2010, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation Fellowship Residency, New Pacific Studios, Mt. Bruce, New Zealand, February 2009, Olimpias Fellowship
Residency, Djerassi Artists Residency Program, Summer 1996
Residency, Yaddo, Summer 1995
Arts Foundation of Michigan Literature Grant, 1994-1995
Josephine Nevins Keal Faculty Fellowship, Wayne State University English Department (semester's leave from teaching to pursue creative work), 1995; 1997
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, Wayne State University, 1996
Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Wayne State University, 1995
Grant from Wayne State University's Diversity Project, 1994
Residency, Centrum, Winter 1995
Residency, Hedgebrook, Summer 1993
D.H. Lawrence Fellowship, 1991
Literature Fellowship, Brody Arts Fund, 1988
Grant from Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation to continue work on fiction, 1987
Grant from Barbara Deming Memorial Fund to complete work of creative nonfiction, 1986