[2] It was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction,[3] and was listed as a best book of the year by NPR[4] and Vanity Fair.

[9] Gerard’s writing has been included in the anthologies We Can’t Help It If We’re From Florida,[10] Retro 4: Selections from Joyland Magazine,[11] and Best Short Stories from the Saturday Evening Post (2015).

[18] Her column Mouthful chronicled her relationship with food ten years into recovery from anorexia and bulimia, and was illustrated by her paper collages.

[19] Gerard published Recycle, a co-authored book of collages and text, with the independent art press Pacific, in 2018.

[23] On June 1, 2021, she was named a winner of the Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation.