2000s

  • Borchard Foundation Fellowship 2021- 2024
  • Guggenheim Fellowship 2015-16
  • “Spotted Hyena” essay selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2015 (editor Rebecca Skloot)
  • Residency, The Hermitage Artist’s retreat, Englewood, FL, 2014 & 2015
  • Best Essay Gold, GAMMA Awards, Magazine Association of the Southeast for “Culture, Biology, Emergence,” published by The Georgia Review, Spring 2009
  • “The Rabbit on Mars” essay selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007 (editor Richard Preston
  • Residency, H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest (2006)
  • Residency Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon (2003)
  • Residency, Mesa Refuge (2002)
  • Winter Residency, Djerassi Resident Artists Program (2001 and 2005)

1990s

  • Bayer Award in Science Writing from Creative Nonfiction (1998)
  • Residency, National Writers Voice Project, Scottsdale, Arizona (1995)
  • Residency, Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers, Edinburgh, Scotland (1994)
  • Fellowship, Arizona Commission on the Arts (1995)
  • Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets (1993)
  • Pushcart Prize (1993)
  • Tucson-Pima Arts Council Fellowship (1993)
  • Gertrude B. Claytor Memorial Award, Poetry Society of America (1992)
  • Residency, Yaddo (1992)
  • Residency, The Island Institute, Sitka, Alaska (1992)
  • Residency, Djeraasi Resident Artists Program (1990)
  • Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts (1990 and 1995)

1980s

  • Wallace Stegner Fellowship, Stanford University (1987-88)
  • Residency, Cummington Community for the Arts (1985)
  • Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown (1984-85)
  • Pablo Neruda Prize from Nimrod (1983)