2020: Yaddo Fellowship

2018: Goldfarb Family Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

2017: New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Artist Fellowship (Nonfiction Literature)

2017: 'Notable essay,' The Best American Essays 2017

2017: Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe Foundation Scholarship in Nonfiction 

2017: Water Rights Residency at Santa Fe Art Institute

2017: Finalist, Narrative Magazine Fall Story Contest

2016: MacDowell Fellowship

2016: 'Notable essay,' The Best American Essays 2016

2016: Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award

2015: Gulf Coast Prize in Nonfiction

2015: AWP Emerging Writer Prize (Nonfiction)

2015: Scholar, Tin House Writing Workshop

2014: Prairie Schooner Essay Prize

2014: Wasafiri New Writing Prize (Life Writing)

2014: Finalist, New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Nonfiction, New York

2012-13: Sarai ‘City as Studio’ Nonfiction Fellowship, New Delhi