National and Regional
Citations in Best American Short Stories 2014 and Best American Nonrequired Reading 2014 for “Pretty.”
Richard Ohmann Award for Outstanding Article in College English 2010-2011, for “‘We’re Here and We’re Not Going Anywhere’: Why Working Class Rhetorical Traditions Still
Matter.”
Five-Week Residency in Fiction Writing. Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, July 2010.
Honorable Mention, Civic Scholarship Outstanding Book Award, for Living Room: Teaching Public Writing in a Privatized World, awarded by Reflections: Writing, Service-Learning, and Community Literacy, 2009.
New Student Orientation/First-Year Seminar Featured Book, Castleton State University, 2007, for The Road from Prosperity, selected as the common reading for all first-year seminars.
Short List, Mary McCarthy Award for Fiction, 2002, for The Cheating Kind (top 12 out of 500 manuscripts considered).
Citation in The O. Henry Awards Prize Stories 2000 for “Mental.”
Prairie Schooner Reader’s Choice Award, 1999, for the short story “Mental.”
Special Mention in The Pushcart Prize 1999: Best of the Small Presses for “Running to Ethiopia.”
Honorable Mention, James L. Kinneavy Award for Most Outstanding Article in JAC for “Worlds in the Making: The Literacy Project as Potential Space,” 1996.
University of Vermont
Instructional Incentive Grant, with the Composition Committee, for “Working with English Language Learners in Introductory Writing and Literature Classrooms,” Summer 2010.
Problem-Based Learning Community Award, with Julie Roberts, Communication Sciences, and Emily Manetta, Anthropology, for “Communicative Competence in a Multi-literate World,” Spring 2008.
English Graduate Student Association Faculty Appreciation Award, Spring 2005.
University Service Learning Fellowship, Spring 2001.
University Committee for Research and Scholarship Award, Summer 1997.