Pen/Faulkner Prize for Novella (Give Me You); Ohioana Best Novel (Worry Beads); Best One Hundred Essays (Presleystroika); Literal Latte Fiction Award (Pictures In the Mud);  Literal Latte Poetry Award (Fairy Tale Dream); Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers (The Patron Saint of Red Chevys); New Women's Voices Award (The Birds Are On Fire) and others.