Fiction Writer

Publications & Prizes
Whiting Writers Award;
Pushcart Prize;
Bakeless Prize;
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant;
Notable Mention in Best American Short Stories for “Arsonists”;
Thomas D. and Lily Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature;
Brenda Ueland Fiction Prize;
Finalist for the 2008 Washington State Book Award, Strange As This Weather Has Been;
Finalist for the 2008 Orion Book Award, Strange As This Weather Has Been;
2007 Weatherford Prize for best fiction/poetry about Appalachia, Strange As This Weather Has Been;
Plattner Award for Nonfiction;
Doris Roberts/William Goyen Fellowship in Fiction, the Christopher Isherwood
Foundation;
Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship;
Julia Peterkin Prize;
West Virginia Commission on the Arts Fellowship;
Glasgow Prize for Given Ground;
First Place, New Millennium Writings, Creative Nonfiction;
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship