• 2002:
Canadian Authors Association, winner of poetry award,
Darkness and Silence •
2003: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry,
The Witness Ghost •
2004: Finalist for Governor General's Award for poetry,
The Memory Orchard • 2004:
Alberta Literary Awards, winner of the Georges Bugnet Award for Novel, ''The Paperboy's Winter'' • 2008:
Guggenheim Fellowship • 2012:
Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, finalist for
The Tinsmith. • 2025: Walcott Prize, finalist for
In the Capital City of Autumn • 2025:
Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, finalist for
Graveyard Shift at the Lemonade Stand ==Bibliography==