Everett’s stories have appeared in the Pushcart and Best American anthologies, and been featured on NPR’s Selected Shorts. His many honors include the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, the Dos Passos Prize, the PEN Center USA Award for Fiction, the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for Fiction, and the Academy Award in Literature from The American Academy of Arts and Letters.