| 2010-2011 | Teaching-Writing Fellow, University of Iowa Writers Workshop, Iowa City, Iowa |
| 2011-2013 | Wallace Stegner Fellow, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2012 | Whiting Writers Award, Whiting Foundation, New York, NY |
| since 2013 | Jones Lecturer in Fiction, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA |
| 2013 | publication of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena |
| 2013 | Nominee for National Book Award for A Constellation of Vital Phenomena |
| 2014 | National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award for A Constellation of Vital Phenomena |
| 2014 | Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in Fiction |
| 2014 | California Book Award |
