Awards
- 2003 Hayden Carruth Award
- 2003-2004 Fulbright Fellowship
- Finalist, 2006 National Book Award for Angle of Yaw.
- Finalist, 2006 Northern California Book Awards for Angle of Yaw
- 2010-2011 Howard Foundation Fellow
- 2011 Preis der Stadt Münster für internationale Poesie
- Finalist for the 2011 Los Angeles Times Book Award for first fiction
- Finalist for the 2012 Young Lions Prize, given by the New York Public Library
- Winner of the 2012 ''The Believer'' book award
- Finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan Prize for International Writing
- Finalist for the 2012 PEN/Bingham Award
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