Fellowships & Awards

Gold Coast Castle Ghana

2018-PLAYA Residency-Summer Lake, Oregon

2018-Disquiet International Literary Program-Lisbon, Portugal

2016-National Endowment for the Humanities-University of Louisiana

2007-American Academy Rome (visiting artist)

2005-Mid-Atlantic Artist Foundation Prize-nonfiction-"Love Means Nothing"

2001-Women's Research Center-Brandeis University

2001-Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship-Bellagio, Italy

2000-Outstanding Research Award-West Virginia University

1999-DuPont Scholar-Randolph-Macon Woman's College

1997-98 Fulbright Scholar-University of Tübingen, Germany

1996-Senate Research Award-West Virginia University

1994-Virginia Foundation for Public Policy & the Humanities-Charlottesville, Virginia

1993-National Endowment for the Humanities-University of Kansas

1991/92-Jane C. Campbell Fellowship-Virginia Center for the Creative Arts

1990-Bread Loaf Writers Conference-Middlebury, Vermont

1988-ISOMATA-Idyllwild