Awards and Honors for A Sudden Country
Winner:
Sherwood Anderson Foundation Grant for Emerging Authors 2006
Mountains and Plains Booksellers Association Award for Fiction 2006
Washington State Book Award for Fiction 2006
Virginia Commonwealth University Award for First Fiction 2006
Finalist:
PEN/Faulkner Award 2006
L.A. Times Art Seidenbaum Fiction Award 2006
Western Writers of America Spur Award 2006
Willa (Women Writing the West) Award 2006
PEN Center USA Award 2006
Named:
Seattle Times Best Book of 2005
BookSense 2005 Summer Hardback Pick, 2006 Summer Paperback Pick
L.A. Times 100 Best Books of 2005
Fellowships
National Endowment For the Arts, 2012 Prose Fellow
Residencies
Hedgebrook 2011
Espy Foundation 2009