| In the Event of Contact, Winner, Eric Hoffer Short Story Collection Award, April, 2022 | In the Event of Contact, Finalist, Eric Hoffer Grand Prize, April, 2022 | In the Event of Contact, Nominated, ZIBBY AWARDS, October, 2021 | In the Event of Contact, Winner, Gold Independent Publisher Book (IPPY) Award for Best Regional Fiction: Europe, May, 2021 | Longlisted, 2019 Fish Short Story Prize, March, 2020 |
| Shortlisted, Disquiet Literary International Story Contest, March, 2020 | Shortlisted, Writer in Residence, Leuven University, Centre for Irish Studies, Leuven, Belgium, February, 2020 | Winner, 2019 Dzanc Book Prize. My short story collection, In the Event of Contact, will publish spring, 2021. | Highly Commended, "Everywhere She Went," 2019 An Post Writing.ie Short Story of the Year Award | Winner, The Weight of Him, Northern California Publishers & Authors' (NCPA) Award, April, 2018 |
| Winner, The Weight of Him, Nautilus Book Award, April 2018 | The Weight of Him, KOBO's Best of Irish Fiction & Literature, April, 2018 | The Weight of Him, Shortlist, The Reading Women's Fiction Award, November, 2017 | Longlist, The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, February, 2017 | Winner, Literary Death Match, September, 2016 |
| Finalist, Literary Death Match Bookmark Contest, Judged by Daniel Handler, July, 2016 | The Weight of Him, Winner of the Inaugural Plumeri Fellowship, May, 2016 | Honorable Mention, The Masters Review Short Story Award, September, 2015 | Whatever Doesn't Kill You, Silver Medal Winner, IPPY Independent Publisher Book Awards, May, 2015 | Shortlist, Roberts Short Story Competition, April, 2015 |
| Shortlist, CUIRT New Writing Prize, March, 2015 | Juror, 2015 Litcamp Writers Conference, Selection Committee | Associate Editor, Flash Fiction Int'l Anthology, W.W. Norton, 2015 | Guest Editor, Smokelong Quarterly Magazine, September, 2014 | Goodnight Nobody, Longlist, Edge Hill Prize, 2014 |
| Juror, Selection Committee, LitCamp Writers' Conference, 2014 | "Major Drill" Pushcart Prize Nomination, December, 2013 | Winner, 2013 Bryan MacMahon Short Story Award, May, 2013 | Nominated for San Francisco Foundation Literary Awards, May, 2013 | Featured as 1 of 15 "Bay Area Literary Heroes," San Francisco Magazine, June, 2013 |
| Fiction Judge, Burning River Press Chapbook Contest, Summer, 2013 | The Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions of 2012, May, 2013 | Fiction Judge, Writer's Digest 21st Annual Self-Published Book Awards, 2013 | Juror, Selection Committee, LitCamp Writers' Conference, 2013 | Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland, 2013 |
| Judge, Literary Death Match, San Francisco, July, 2012 | Shortlist, Anam Cara Short Story Competition, August, 2012, | Commendation from Christine Dwyer Hickey in Moth Altun Short Story Prize, "Two Moons," May, 2012 | Winner, Portuguese Writers' Colony Live Writing Contest, May, 2012 | Shortlist, Bristol Short Story Prize, 2012 |
| Winner, Tin House Plotto Contest, May, 2012 | Semi-Finalist, Rose Metal Press Sixth Chapbook Contest, January, 2012 | Bristol Short Story Prize, 2011, Longlist | Wigleaf Top 50 Very Short Fictions, 2011, Longlist | Cut Through the Bone, Longlist, Frank O'Connor Int'l Short Story Award, 2011 |
| Cut Through the Bone, Longlist, The Story Prize, 2010 | Guest Editor, Smokelong Quarterly Magazine, May, 2010 | Writer in Residence, Necessary Fiction, March, 2010 | Winner, PANK Little Books contest, 2010 | Winner, 30 Day Writing Regimen, Southeast Review Online, 2010 |
| Third Eye Commentary, Founding Review, August, 2009 | PANK, Runner-up, First Annual Chapbook Contest, 2009 | Davy Byrnes Short Story Award, Judged by Richard Ford, Longlist, 2009 | Fish Publishing One Page Story Prize, Longlist, 2009 | Bartleby Snopes Magazine, Story of the Month, May, 2009 |
| Mills College Alumni Graduate Merit Scholarship, 2002-2004 | Mills College Academic Honors List, 1998-2004 | Writer's Colony Dairy Hollow, Residency, Arkansas, 2003 | Mills College Dean's Undergraduate Merit Scholarship, 1998-2002 | Winner, Marion Hood Boess Haworth Prize, Young Adult Fiction, 2002 |
| Ardella Mills Prize, Second Place, Non-Fiction, 2002 | Winner, Ardella Mills Prize, Fiction, 2001 |