TIME Magazine Next Generation Leader (June 2021 Cover)
National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” Honoree (2018)
Won: Stonewall Book Award for Nonfiction (2022) • The Otherwise Award (formerly the Tiptree Award) • Ilube Nommo Award • Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa
Finalist: 2023 NAACP Image Award • National Book Award for Young People's Literature • PEN/Jean Stein Prize • PEN/Hemingway Award for a Debut Novel • Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • NYPL Young Lions Award • Dylan Thomas Prize • Orwell Prize for Political Fiction • Lambda Literary Award (Transgender Fiction) • Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature • Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction • Lambda Literary Award (LGBTQ Young Adult)
Honor: Stonewall Book Award (2021) • Stonewall Book Award (2020) • Walter Award • Otherwise Award
Longlisted: International Dublin Literary Award • Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence • CILIP Carnegie Medal • Wellcome Prize • Aspen Words Literary Prize (2021) • Aspen Words Literary Prize (2019) • Women's Prize for Fiction • VCU Cabell First Novelist Award • Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize
Astraea Foundation Global Arts Fund • Sozopol Fellowship for Creative Nonfiction • Miles Morland Writing Scholarship