Awards
- National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship
- PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novelist, Finalist
- Oregon Book Award
- Story Magazine Short Story Contest, Finalist
- Fulbright Research Award, Amman, Jordan
- International Writers NEA Fellowship in Fiction
- National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
- Guest Fiction Editor, Seattle Review
- Pushcart Prize Finalist, short fiction
- Judge, National Endowment for the Arts Fiction/Nonfiction Fellowship Competition
- Named one of the "Top Women Writers 2003" by Vanity Fair magazine
- Crescent named one of Twenty Noteworthy Novels of the Year by The Christian Science Monitor
- Northwest Distinguished Author Award from Willamette Writers
- American Book Award
- PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction
- Language of Baklava named Booksense Notable Book, April 2005
- Northwest Bookseller's Award
- Origin Top five Booksense Pick
- 2008 Arab American Book Award, Honorable Mention
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