A Salamander-Child is published as an art book with work by the Mexican painter Gustavo Monroy. Clement was awarded the National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship for Literature in 2012 for her novel Prayers for the Stolen and was honored with The Sara Curry Humanitarian Award for that work. She is also the recipient of the UK's Canongate Prize. Clement is a Santa Maddalena Fellow, the MacDowell Colony's Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow for 2007-08 and, in 2015, was chosen to be a City of Asylum Resident in Pittsburgh, PA. In 2016, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her new novel Gun Love. Gun Love was named one of Time magazine's top 10 books of 2019 and was also a New York Times Editor's Choice Book, and a National Book Award finalist, among other honors. She is a member of Mexico's prestigious Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte. Jennifer Clement, along with her sister Barbara Sibley, is the founder and director The San Miguel Poetry Week. As President of PEN Mexico she spoke extensively about the safety of journalists in Mexico and was instrumental in raising the issue and changing the law so that the killing of a journalist became a federal crime. Upcoming movies include: Prayers for the Stolen, directed by Tatiana Huezo (titled Noche de fuego) and produced by Nicolas Celis and Jim Stark at Pimienta Films was Mexico's entry for the 2022 Oscars. Among many prizes, the film was awarded the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard Award. Gun Love directed by Julie Taymor and produced by Nick Wechsler and Chockstone Pictures partners Steve Schwartz and Paula Mae Schwartz as well as Lynn Hendee and Julie Taymor. Awards and honors Sydney Harman Writer-in-Residence, Baruch College (City University of New York), 2020 Gun Love: National Book Award, finalist, 2018 Gun Love: Time magazine top 10 books of 2019 Gun Love: A New York Times Editor's Choice Book, 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, USA, 2016 HIPGiver Honor (honoring Latinos who have made exceptional contributions to their communities), USA, 2016 Hermitage Residency, USA, 2016 Grand Prix des Lectrices Lyceenes de Elle (sponsored by Elle Magazine, the French Ministry of Education and Maison des écrivains et de la littérature) France, 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist, USA, 2015 City of Asylum Resident, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2015 Community College of Baltimore County, Essex - Prayers for the Stolen: selected novel for the Community