Awards and Citations
1982 Eric Gregory Award
1985 Dylan Thomas Award The Silver Age
1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry
1997 Sundance Film Festival Waldo Salt Prize for Best Screenplay Sunday
1999 TLS/Blackwells Poetry Competition (Winner)
2001 Forward Poetry Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw
2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw
2001 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw
2002 An Economist Best Book of the Year The Horned Man
2002 A New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Horned Man
2006 National Short Story Competition (Winner) An Anxious Man
2007 Booker Man Prize (long list) Seven Lies
2007 An Economist Best Book of the Year Seven Lies
2007 Encore Award (shortlist) Seven Lies
2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (shortlist) Seven Lies
2009 Atlantic Monthly Best Five Books of the Year It’s Beginning to Hurt