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- A Season of Light, forthcoming from Algonquin Books, 2024
- 2021 Permafrost Book Prize in Fiction Judge, July 2021
- 2020 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellow, April 2020
- Review of A Particular Kind of Black Man in High Country News, January 2020
- Scholarly book chapter forthcoming in Afropolitan Literature as World Literature (Bloomsbury), January 2020
- Article forthcoming in Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, November 2017
- Article accepted for upcoming Callaloo special issue on neo-slave narratives, March 2017
- 2016 Etisalat Literature Prize Shortlist, January 2017
- 2016 Etisalat Literature Prize Longlist, November 2016
- 2016 Miles Morland Writing Scholarship Shortlist, November 2016
- 2016 Siena Art Institute Residency, Semi-finalist, November 2016
- 2016 PEN/Faulkner Award finalist, March 2016
- 2016 MacDowell Colony fellow, March 2016
- 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, Shortlist, February 2016
- Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo France Fellow, February 2016
- 2016 Caribbean Callaloo Fiction Writers’ Workshop, January 2016
- 2015 National Book Critics’ Circle John Leonard Award for Debut Fiction, Finalist, January 2016
- 2015 Library Bestseller, March 2016
- 2016 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, Longlist, December 2015
- San Francisco Chronicle “Best of 2015” selection, December 2015
- Star Tribune Critics’ Choice Selection, November 2015
- Jane Tinkham Broughton Fellow in Fiction at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, August 2015
- Vermont Studio Center Fellow, July 2015
- The Riveter: Riveting Storytelling by Women: Books to Read Summer 2015 selection, June 2015
- Chicago Magazine: “Grab These 10 Great Summer Reads selection” May 2015
- Tennessee Williams Scholar, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, July 2014
- The Rumpus Book Club Selection, April 2015
- Miles Morland Scholarship, Finalist, 2014
- “The Wife” Kenyon Review Weekend Reads Selection (and 2011 Short Fiction Contest finalist), 2014
- Summer Literary Seminars Unified Literary Contest, Finalist, 2010, 2011, and 2013
- Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation (VONA) Summer Writing Workshop Scholarship, 2010
- Glimmer Train Family Matters Fiction Contest, Honorable Mention, 2009
- Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Contest, Finalist, 2006
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