She is a recipient of a Teaching/Writing Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, a grant from the Michener/Copernicus Society of America.
""[7] Sharona Lin of Guernica writes in 2020, "It’s a wild and fantastical tale with all the hallmarks of a gothic classic: there’s a mad Prussian scientist, a secretive village, an existential crisis, a pondering of what it truly means to be human.
The New York Times wrote, "Bakis summons her gift for atmospheric prose in a few memorable scenes, but otherwise 'King Nyx' feels flat.
"[8] Published 27 years after her first novel, one commenter wrote that King Nyx felt semi-autobiographical of Bakis' life experiences due to the many similarities between her and the novel's main character Anna.
In this interview, Bakis noted that the popular reception of Lives of Monster Dogs was overwhelming, and contributed to the long hiatus between book releases.