Awards and nominations:

• · 2005 James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award long list, “This Tragic Glass”
• · Winner, 2005 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer
• · Winner, 2006 Locus Award for Best First Novel for Hammered, Scardown, and Worldwired
• · Nominee, 2006 British Science Fiction Award for Best Short Story, “Two Dreams on Trains”
• · Nominee, 2006 Locus Award for Best Novelette, “Wax”
• · Special Citation, 2006 Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, Carnival
• · Nominee, 2007 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel, Carnival
• · Nominee, 2007 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel, Carnival
• · Nominee, 2007 Interzone Poll for Best Novelette, “Wax”
• · Nominee, 2007 Lambda Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror, Carnival
• · Nominee, 2007 BSFA for Best Short Story, “Sounding”
• · Nominee, 2007 Locus Poll for Best Novelette, “Wane”
• · Nominee, 2008 Lambda Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror, A Companion to Wolves (with Sarah Monette)
• · Nominee, 2008 Locus Poll for Best Novelette, “Cryptic Coloration”
• · Nominee, 2008 Sidewise Award for Short Form, “Lumiére”
• · Nominee, 2008 Locus Poll for Best Collection, New Amsterdam
• · Nominee, 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel, New Amsterdam
• · Nominee, 2008 Locus Poll for Best Short Story, “Orm the Beautiful”
• · Nominee, 2008 WSFA Small Press Award short list, “Orm the Beautiful”
• · Nominee, 2008 Philip K. Dick Memorial Award, Undertow
• · Nominee, 2008 Locus Poll for Best SF Novel, Undertow
• · Nominee, 2008 Locus Poll for Best Fantasy Novel, Whiskey and Water
• · Nominee, 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel, Whiskey and Water
• · Nominee, 2008 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel, Dust
• · Nominee, 2008 Locus Poll for Best Short Story for “Tideline”
• · Winner, 2008 Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award for Best Short Science Fiction for “Tideline”
• · Winner, 2008 Hugo Award for Best Short Story for “Tideline”
• · Winner, 2008 Asimov’s Reader’s Poll for Best Short Story for “Tideline”
• · Nominee, 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel, All the Windwracked Stars
• · Nominee, 2009 Locus Poll for Best Short Story, “Boojum” (with Sarah Monette)
• · Nominee, 2009 Locus Poll for Novelette, “Shoggoths in Bloom”
• · Winner, 2009 Hugo Award for Best Novelette for “Shoggoths in Bloom”
• · Nominee, 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel for By the Mountain Bound
• · Winner, 2009 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel for The Stratford Man (Ink and Steel and Hell and Earth)
• · Nominee, 2010 Locus Poll for Best Novella for “Cuckoo” (with Emma Bull and Leah Bobet)
• · Nominee, 2010 Locus Poll for Best Novelette for “Mongoose” (with Sarah Monette)
• · Nominee, 2010 Gaylactic Spectrum Award for Best Novel for Seven for a Secret
• · Winner, 2010 Drabblecast People’s Choice Award for Best Short Story for “Mongoose,” with Sarah Monette
• · Nominee, 2011 World Fantasy Award for Best Novella for Bone and Jewel Creatures
• · Nominee, 2011 Locus Poll for Best Novella for Bone and Jewel Creatures
• · Nominee, 2011 Philip K. Dick Memorial Award for Chill
• · Nominee, 2011 Locus Poll for Chill
• · Winner, 2012 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for SF Squeecast, with Lynne Thomas, Catherynne Valente, Paul Cornell, and Seanan McGuire
• · Winner, 20012 Audie Award for Best Original Work for METAtropolis: Cascadia (Jay Lake, ed.)
• · Nominee, 2012 Romantic Times Award, Epic Fantasy for Range of Ghosts
• · Honor List, 2012 Tiptree Award, for Range of Ghosts
• Nominee, 2013 Hugo Award for Best Fancast for SF Squeecast, with Lynne Thomas, Catherynne Valente, Paul Cornell, and Seanan McGuire