Book Connection Program 2015–2106 The Irish Times Best Books List 2014 The Sara Curry Humanitarian Award, 2014 Santa Maddalena Fellowship, Italy, 2014 Shortlist Prix Femina, France, 2014 Prayers for the Stolen: A New York Times Editor's Choice Book, 2014 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction, 2012 President of PEN Mexico, 2009–2012 The Sandburg-Auden-Stein Poet-in-Residence, Olivet College, 2011 Writer-in-Residence Pen, Vlaanderen, Antwerp, Belgium, 2010 The Thornton Writer-in-Residence, Lynchburg College, VA, 2009 Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellow, 2007–2008 (awarded by The MacDowell Colony) MacDowell Colony Fellowship, 2007 Residency in Berlin granted by the Goethe Institute and Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, 2004 Finalist in the Orange Prize for Fiction, 2002, UK (for A True Story Based on Lies) The Canongate Prize for New Writing 2001, UK (judged by The Herald, The Sunday Herald, Waterstone's, Channel Four, BBC, and Canongate Books) The Bookseller's Choice List, 2000, UK, (for the memoir Widow Basquiat) U.S.-Mexico Fund for Culture (Conaculta/Fonca/Bancomer/The Rockefeller Foundation) grant in support of The San Miguel Poetry Week Mexico's "Sistema Nacional de Creadores" grant, FONCA, 2000–2006 and 2012 to present References 1960 births 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American novelists 21st-century American women writers American emigrants to Mexico American women novelists Living people New York University alumni Novelists from Connecticut PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winners People from Mexico City Writers from Greenwich, Connecticut