Honors for Seeking Fortune Elsewhere:
Oregon Book Award for Fiction, Winner (Ken Kesey Award), 2023
Writers League of Texas Book Awards, Fiction, Winner, 2023
Pen/Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection, Finalist, 2023
Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction, Finalist, 2023
Story Prize, Longlist, 2023
New American Voices Award, Winner, 2023
ALA Carnegie Medal for Excellence, Longlist, 2022
Other Fiction Honors:
Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Fellow in Fiction, 2023
O. Henry Prize, 2021
Best American Short Stories, Distinguished Stories List, 2021
Sewanee Writers Conference, Scholar in Fiction, 2021
Disquiet Literary Prize, Grand Prize Winner, 2020
Prairie Schooner Raz-Schumaker Book Prize, Finalist, 2020
Kentucky Prose Prize, Runner-Up, 2020
Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction, Winner, 2020 (Declined due to book contract)
Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Finalist, 2020
Rona Jaffe Bread Loaf Scholar, 2019
Keene Prize for Literature, Finalist, 2018 & 2019
Key West Emerging Writer Award, Finalist, 2020 & 2021
Journalism:
Glimmer Train Short Story Award for New Writers, Honorable Mention, 2018
Knight-Wallace Reporting Fellowship, 2020-2021
Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Grantee, 2020 and 2021
New York Press Club Nellie Bly Award (Best Reporting, Under Three Years of Experience) 2011
Kaiser Family Foundation Fellowship in Health Reporting, 2010-2011
Knight Science Journalism Boot Camp Fellow, 2010
McCloy Fellowship in Journalism, American Council on Germany, 2010
Metcalf Environmental Reporting Fellow, 2009-2010
Kaiser Media Internship in Health Reporting, 2007
Wired Magazine Award for Excellence in Technology Reporting, 2007
AAJA Ken Wong Memorial Scholarship, 2007
Mark Felt Scholarship in Investigative Reporting (full tuition), 2007
SAJA Award, Outstanding Editorial. 2006
Carnegie Mellon Institutional Scholarship, 1998-2002