Honors
- 2002 Louisiana Endowment for The Humanities 2002 Book of the Year for Audubon’s Watch.
- 1998 George A. And Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship.
- 1996 Steinbeck Award for Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, U.K. (Awarded for the year's best novel published in the United Kingdom by a writer under forty years old.)
- 1996 Granta magazine Best Young American Novelists competition, Southern Region.
- 1994 The Lillian Smith Book Award for Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery.
- 1993 Lyndhurst Fellowship.
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