 In 2005, she was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship for fiction.She was a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, a workspace co-operative that also includes Po Bronson, Julia Scheeres, Tom Barbash, Peter Orner, and Jason Roberts, among others.In Spring 2007 she was named one of America's Best Young Novelists by Granta as well as one of "Smithsonian Magazine"'s Young Innovators in October 2007.