She is the recipient of scholarships from The Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ conferences, a Yaddo Artists’ residency, a Bakeless Camargo residency, and a Fulbright research grant to The United Arab Emirates. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in journals such as The Alaska Quarterly Review, The Southern Review, and The Kenyon Review. Her personal essays, two of which have been cited as notable essays in The Best American Essays series, have appeared in journals such asThe New England Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, and The Gettysburg Review.