Honors and Awards
- National Book Award (Finalist) for The Feast of Love, 2000
- The Award in Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1997
- Ohio University Spring Literary Festival (Honoree), 1995
- The Cohen Award for the best essay published in Ploughshares, 1994
- The Daniel A. Pollack-Harvard Review award to Shadow Play, 1994
- The Gettysburg Review nonfiction prose award for "Fiction and the Inner Life of Objects," 1994
- Michigan Author of the Year Award, 1993
- Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Foundation Fellowship, 1992–95
- Lawrence Foundation Award, 1991
- Arts Foundation of Michigan Award, 1991
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 1985–86
- Michigan Council for the Arts Grant, 1984
- National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1983
- Lawrence Foundation Award, 1982
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