Writer, editor, teacher, and translator

Grants & Awards:

Danish Arts Fund, 2007

Lambda Literary Award, 2007. Finalist for lesbian memoir for Incognito Street

PEN Center USA, 2005. Finalist for creative nonfiction for The Pirate Queen

Seattle Arts Commission, 1999. Creative nonfiction fellowship

Lambda Literary Award, 1998, for Blue Windows. Lesbian memoir

PEN USA Literary Award, 1998. Finalist for creative nonfiction for Blue Windows

Lambda Literary Award, 1991, for Gaudi Afternoon. Lesbian mystery

British Crime Writers Award, 1991, for Gaudi Afternoon. Best mystery set in Europe

Columbia Translation Prize, 1985, for Cora Sandel: Selected Short Stories

Seattle Arts Commission, 1988. Fiction fellowship

Pushcart Prize, 1986

King County Arts Commission, 1979.
Fiction fellowship

Residencies & Other Honors:

Hedgebrook, residency, 2007

MacDowell Colony, residency, 2007

Baltic Writers Centre, residency, Gotland,
Sweden, 2003

Barents Literary Centre, residency, Overkälix, Sweden, 2002

Finnish Writers Union, residency, Helsinki,
Finland, 2002

Iceland Writers Union, residency, Reykjavik,
Iceland, 2000

Brisons Veor, residency, Cornwall, U.K., 1999

British Arts Council–sponsored reading tour around U.K. with P.D. James and other mystery writers, 1994

United States representative to International Lahti Writers Festival in Finland, 1993