Awards & Grants

SELECTED readings

Artist in Residence, Vermont Studio Center, 2016.

Fondation Beaumarchais, Paris, 2015. (Opera: Gilgamesh) 

​Lannan Residency, Marfa, winter, 2013. 

The Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2008.

Prix Guerlain, 2007.

Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, 2004.

College International des Traducteurs Litteraires, Arles, France, spring, 2005.

Lannan Residency at Marfa, Texas, fall 2004.

Los Angeles Times list of Best Books for 1999.

Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters, 1998.

Critic’s Choice, 1996.

Copeland Colloquium, Amherst College, spring, 1993.

Lannan Literary Fellowship for Fiction, 1993.

Finalist, National Book Critic’s Circle Award, 1993.

Finalist, Prix Maurice Edgar Coindreau, 1993.

Copeland Colloquium, Amherst College, 1992.

Eben Demarest Trust, 1990.

Mary Ingram Bunting Institute, 1987-1988.

Ingram Merrill Foundation, 1988.
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Ontario Arts Council, 1976, 1977, 1983, 1987.

Powell’s, Portland, 2016.

City Lights, San Francisco, 2016.

The Imprint, Port Townsend, 2016.

Vermont Studio Center, 2016.

Naropa, 2016.

American Book Review, University of Houston-Victoria, 2016.

Elliot Bay, Seattle, 2015.

Bard College, 2015.
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Brown University, 2015.

Naropa, summer, 2013.

Brown University, 2012.

Sorbonne, Paris, 2012.

Mills College,Oakland, 2012.

The Fairy Tale Vanguard, University of Ghent, Belgium, 2012.

Vermont Studio Center, 2012.

The Juniper Institute, U. Mass Amherst, 2012.

San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2012.

Elliott Bay, Seattle, 2011, 2012.

City Lights, San Francisco, 2011.

Washington University, St. Louis, 2009.

& NOW Conference, SUNY, Buffalo, Keynote Lecture, 2009.

Villa Gilet, Lyon, spring, 2007.

Keynote Lecture “On Obscurity,” University of Paris IV, Sorbonne, December, 2006.

Societé de Gens de Lettres, Hôtel de Massa, Paris, spring 2001. Introduced by Marc Chénetier.

Villa Gilet, Lyon, winter, 2003.

Symposium sur la Littérature Américaine Contemporaine, “Imagination Alive Imagine,” Institut Charles V, Paris, spring 2001.

Topos/Chronos, “Aesthetics for a New Millennium,” University of Colorado at Boulder, spring 2001.

Lahti International Writer’s Reunion, Mukkula, Finland, 2000.

The International Writers Center Reading series, 1999-200 season, Washington University. Introduced by William Gass.

Intersections 11, San Jose Museum of Art, winter 2000.

Cross Fertilizations, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 2000.
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Walker Art Center, with Rosamond Purcell, winter 2000.