Duff’s work has won the Cohen Prize for Fiction from Ploughshares and the St. Andrews Prize for Poetry, and has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, an Edgar Allen Poe Award, and an International eBook Award. In March of 2019, Duff was inducted into the Texas Literary Hall of Fame, which “honors authors whose work significantly contributes to Texas’ literary heritage…and has previously been recognized for its literary significance.” His first novel, Indian Giver, was a finalist for the Great Lakes Colleges Association First Novel Award, and Fire Ants was a finalist for the Jesse Jones Award for the 2007 Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters. His stories have been cited in the Best American Short Fiction, the Pushcart Prizes, and the Editors’ Choice: The Best American Fiction.
