Rose Whitmore is the recipient of the 2021 James Jones First Novel Fellowship, the Oran Robert Perry Burke Award from The Southern Review, and the Peden Prize from The Missouri Review. She has received fellowships from Hemingway’s House in Ketchum, the Breadloaf Writer's Conference, Hedgebrook, and the San Leandro Arts Commission. Rose received a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford where she was also a Jones Lecturer and the recipient of the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for excellence in teaching.