Awards include New York Times Book Review Notable Book and "Top 100 Books of the Year," University of Rochester Kafka Prize for "Outstanding book of prose fiction by an American woman," and Talmadge McKinney Award for "Excellence in Research" for The Kommandant's Mistress. University of Cincinnati Elliston Poetry Prize for poems excerpted from Love in the Time of Dinosaurs and from Where Lightning Strikes: Poems on the Holocaust. UKA Press International Creative Writing Competition Grand Prize for Naked with Glasses, stories. Finalist in SFWP Literary Award Contest (2017) for true crime memoir M is for Munchers: The Serial Killers Next Door. Website/Blog: TheAlexandriaPapers.com Twitter: @Alexandria_SZ Pinterest: Pinterest.com/AlexandriaSZ Facebook: @AlexandriaSzeman Goodreads: Alexandria Constantinova Szeman (Formerly published under pseudonym "Sherri")