Awards
With co-translator Derek Mong, winner of ALTA’s 2018 Cliff Becker Book Prize in Translation, for The Joyous Science: Selected Poems of Maxim Amelin.
Winner of Russia’s Book of the Year award in the Poetry category, for 100 Stikhotvorenii o Moskve. Antologia /100 Poems about Moscow: An Anthology, ed., coll. Artyom Skvortsov (B.S.G.-Press: Moscow, 2016). (I was translation editor.)
Outstanding Alumni Award, from The University of Oklahoma National Scholars Programs & Alumni Association (2017).
Finalist, The 2015 Gabo Prize for Literature in Translation & Multi-Lingual Texts (Winter/Spring 2015), by Lunch Ticket, for “Five Poems by Maxim Amelin” (co-translated with Derek Mong).
2012 Northern California Book Award for Fiction in Translation, by the Northern California Book Reviewers, Poetry Flash, The Center for the Art of Translation, Red Room, PEN West, Mechanics' Institute, and the San Francisco Public Library, for The Twelve Chairs.
2010 Best Translation into English, by The American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, for The Little Golden Calf.
Shortlisted for the 2007 Rossica Prize for Excellence in Russian to English Literary Translation, by Academia Rossica, for Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip: The 1935 Travelogue of Two Soviet Writers.
Grants
2010 NEA Translation Grant for co-translating (with poet Derek Mong) the poetry of Maxim Amelin.
2009 NEH Collaborative Research Fellow; collaborator, Ms. Alexandra Il’f. Project title: “Il’ia Il’f: Critical Biography and Annotated Diaries.”
Department of Education Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to attend ACTR Summer Russian Language Teachers Program, Moscow (Summer 2008).
Honorable Mention, Rackham Graduate School Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan (2006).
Sylvia “Duffy” Engle Graduate Student Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan (2004-2005).
Fellow, U.S. Fulbright Student Program to Moscow, Russia (1999-2000)
Fellow, Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) for study in St. Petersburg, Russia, with the Center for Russian and East European Studies (CREES), University of Michigan (1998)