Awards and Honors

  • St. Lawrence Book Award (2022)
  • City of Boston Artist Fellowship Award (2020)
  • Yaddo Residency (Summer 2018)
  • Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship (2016-2017)
  • “Jungleman” and “The Footbridge” named “Notable Short Stories of 2016,” Best American Short Stories 2016
  • “The Footbridge” listed in “Notable Nonrequired Reading of 2015,” Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016
  • “Jungleman” won the 2015 Crazyhorse Fiction Prize 
  • “The Western Tailor” won third place in the Narrative “30 Below” Contest 2012

            Boston University 

  • Teaching Fellowship (Spring 2012)
  • Florence Engell Randall Graduate Fiction Award 
  • Robert Fitzgerald Translation Prize
  • Schmuel Traum Translation Prize
  • Leslie Epstein Global Fellowship (for travel to Russia)