Honors

• Anne and Robert Cowan Writers Award, Runner-Up, 2015
• Moment-Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Second Place, 2015
• Finalist, Lambda Literary Awards, General Gay Fiction Category, 2014
• Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, 2012
• Leapfrog Fiction Contest, Semifinalist, 2012
• Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Winner, 2010
• Moment Magazine-Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Honorable Mention, 2010
• Associated Writing Programs Award Series in the Novel, Runner-up, 1992
• Yale College Writing Awards: Wallace Fiction Prize, Veech Prize for fiction writing, Willets Prize for creative writing

Appearances

• Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience, New Orleans, May 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp1MhTE6v50&ab_channel=MuseumoftheSouthernJewishExperience
• E. Shaver, Starland, Savannah, May 2024
• Bird and Beckett Bookstore, San Francisco, April 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEqtQLwoHt8&ab_channel=Bird%26Beckett
• Make Out Room, Litquake San Francisco, October 2015
• La Movida wine bar and community kitchen, InsideStorytime reading, December 2014
• Litquake San Francisco, October 2014
• Litquake Palo Alto, August 2014
• California Institute of Integral Studies, Mission at Tenth publication party and reading, September 2014
• Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, Lambda Awards Finalist Reading, May 2014
• San Francisco Public Library, Lambda Awards Finalist Reading, May 2014
• The Book Lady Bookstore, Savannah, April 2014
• Books Inc., Castro, San Francisco, March 2014
• Birchbark Books, Minneapolis, January 2014
• Silicon Valley Jewish Community Center, Los Gatos, Schmooze with the Author, December 2013
• Bluestockings bookstore, New York, November 2013
• Barnes & Noble, Princeton, November 2013
• Mosaic television program, KPIX, November 2013 (see News & Reviews page for link to video)
• Bird & Beckett bookstore, San Francisco, November 2013
• Skylight Books, Los Angeles, November 2013
• Litquake San Francisco, J Weekly Litcrawl reading, October 2013
• Litquake San Francisco, “The Art of the Short Story” panel, October 2013
• Litquake Palo Alto, “The Beauty of Brevity” panel, August 2013
• Nehirim West, reading, March 2013
• Moment Magazine & Karma Foundation Short Fiction Awards, Manhattan Jewish Community Center, group reading, October 2011 – [Listen] | [Original, Complete Recording]