2024 Anne Spencer Fellow from Virginia Creative Center for the Arts Black Woman in Food Award (amplifier) Writing Freedom Fellowship from Haymarket Books and the Mellon Foundation Pabst Endowed Chair for Master Writers and Mentoring Artist-in-Residence at the Atlantic Center for the Arts 2023 Bush Holbrook Endowed Professor of English University Research Professor Kaleidoscope Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction, C.T. and Octavia Vivian Museum and Archives 2022 Sundell Residency for Special Assistants, Yaddo Foundation English Department Ellen Rosenman Distinguished Faculty Award Working Class Studies Association Tillie Olsen Award UK Arts & Sciences Award for the Promotion of Diversity or Inclusion The Birds of Opulence named a Black History Month read by Elle Magazine Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature Poetry FinalistHedgebrook Writer in Residence 2021 Kentucky Poet Laureate Thomas D. Clark Medallion Book Award, Perfect Black: named one of four poetry books to read by The New York Times Book Review (August 14, 2021) and named one of the most exciting and necessary collections of poetry of 2021 by Ms Magazine , Kentucky Reads Book Choice 2020 Yaddo Fellowship Hermitage Residency Agrarian League Literary Book Selection 2019 Yaddo Fellowship Appalachian Heritage Award Hermitage Residency Finalist John Dos Passos Prize One Book/One Read West Virginia 2018 Vermont Studio Center Open Canon Book Club pick Opal Moore Writer-in-Residence, One Book/One Read Western Kentucky Community and Technical College 2017 Judy Gaines Young Award The Weatherford Award for Appalachian Fiction Nominated for USA Artists Fellowship Writing Rhetoric & Digital Studies Community Writing Award 2016 Appalachian Book of the Year