Fellowships & Awards

2018 - PLAYA Residency-Summer Lake, Oregon

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2018 - Disquiet International Literary Program - Lisbon, Portugal

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2016 - National Endowment for the Humanities - University of Louisiana

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2014 - US Embassy Accra, Ghana

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2007 - American Academy Rome (visiting artist) - Rome, Italy

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

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2001 - Women's Research Center - Brandeis University - Boston, Massachusetts

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2001 - Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship - Bellagio, Italy

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2000 - Outstanding Research Award - West Virginia University

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1999 - DuPont Scholar - Randolph College - Lynchburg, Virginia

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1997-98 - Fulbright Scholar - University of Tübingen, Germany

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1996 - Senate Research Award - West Virginia University

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

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1993 - National Endowment for the Humanities - University of Kansas

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

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1990 - Bread Loaf Writers Conference - Middlebury, Vermont

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1988 - Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts (ISOMATA) - Idyllwild, California

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