[1] She is a graduate of Central College, where she studied Art and Spanish,[2] and the MFA program at Brown University, where she received the John Hawkes Prize, the Feldman Prize and the Kim Ann Arstark Memorial Award.
She was the 2022 recipient of Lambda Literary's Jim Duggins Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists' Prize.
[3] She won FC2’s Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize in 2016 for her short story collection, A Brief Alphabet of Torture.
Sheep Machine is an ekphrastic work written in response to Leslie Thornton's film of the same name.
[9] Her 2023 book Suicide: The Autoimmune Disorder of the Psyche was shortlisted for the 2024 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir or Biography.