HONORS & AWARDS
Guggenheim Fellowship 1976
Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award
2004
Berlin
Prize Fellowship 2000
ACLS Senior Fellowship 1992
Rhode Island State Arts Council Fellowships
1989 and 1997
Rockefeller Foundation Artist's Fellowship Residency
at Bellagio 1989
NEH Fellowship Institute for Literary Translation
1988
ACLS Fellowship IREX Exchange to the Soviet
Union 1976
Other fellowships 1968-present: American Academy
in Rome (Visiting Artist), Macdowell Colony, Bogliasco Foundation, Djerassi
Foundation, Bread Loaf, Huntington Library, NSF, University of Wisconsin
Humanities Institute, Princeton University (Dodds Fellowship for Distinguished
Work)
Listed in Who's Who in America, World's Who's
Who of Women, International Authors & Writers Who's Who, Contemporary
Authors
Member of PEN American Center
LITERARY PRIZES
O. Henry Prize Stories 2003
Goodheart Prize 2003
Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Prize 2002
Berlin Prize in Literature 2000
100 Distinguished Stories of the Year, Best American
Short Stories 2000 and 1994
Iowa Short Fiction Award 1993
PEN Syndicated Fiction Award 1991
Judith Siegel Pearson Award 1991
Pushcart Prize Special Mention 1998;
Nomination 1990
Chris O'Malley Fiction Prize Madison Review
1987
Chicago Tribune Nelson Algren Awards 1987
Raymond Carver Prize 1986
