M. M. De Voe has won awards, mention, or been shortlisted for the following awards:

• The 1997 Raymond Carver Short Fiction Competition
• PRISM: international 1999 Short Fiction Competition
• Phoebe’s 2001 Short Story Contest
• The Lyric’s 1990 National Poetry Contest
• nowCulture.com’s 1998 Annual Poetry Contest
• H. E. Francis Short Story Competition 2002
• Fish Publishing’s 2003 Short Story Prize
• The 2004 Bellwether Prize (unpublished novel)
• The 2004 Dana Awards (unpublished novel)
• The 2005 Pushcart Prize (short story)
• The 2006 Pushcart Prize (short story)
• The Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation 2006 Novel Competition
• Best of the First Line 2006 (short story)
• The 2007 Pushcart Prize (short story)
• 2007 Best of the ‘Net (short story)
• 2007 Best of the Web (short story)
• Sojourn’s 2007 Editor’s Choice Award (Work in Fiction)
• 2008 Fellowship to the SLS Literary Seminar in St. Petersburg, Russia

She won the Regina Russo Outstanding Recent Graduate Award in June 1999, and has been listed in Who’s Who of American Women and Who’s Who in the World since 2004.