- Loft’s Excellence in Teaching Fellowship, 2020
- Minnesota State Art Board grant, 2019
- Bush Fellowship Finalist, 2019
- Space Ryder Farm, Semi-Finalist, 2019
- Loft Literary Center, Mentor Series Award in Fiction, 2010
- Howard Hughes Science Writing Fellowship, Brown University, 2003
- Casey Shearer Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction, Brown University, 2002
