The stories comprising Owner's Manual have won over thirty national and international awards, including The University of Memphis' River City Fiction Award; Western Washington University's Tobias Wolff Award; The Bridport Arts Centre's Bridport Prize; The Society for the Study of the American Short Story's national literary award; The University of Nebraska-Omaha's TNR Award in Fiction; The Hindman Foundation's H.E. Francis Literary Award; George Mason University's Phoebe Winter Fiction Award; The Dana Foundation's Dana Award in Fiction; The Illinois Arts Council's Literary Award; Fairfield University's Dogwood Prize in Fiction; the Loft Literary Center's Speakeasy Prize in Prose; Swink Magazine's Editors' Award for Emerging Writers; The University of Virginia's Meridian Editors Prize in Fiction; The University of Missouri's Missouri Review Editors Award for Fiction; and the Association of Writers and Writing Programs' Writers Scholarship Award.