Silber's work has been selected for The O. Henry Prize Stories six times—in 2003, 2004, 2007, 2013, 2015, and 2021. It also appeared in the Best American Short Stories 2015, and won The Pushcart Prize. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker,Ploughshares,The Paris Review, Tin House, Epoch, The Southern Review, Agni, The Colorado Review, and other publications.[2]
She has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation,[9] the National Endowment for the Arts[10] and the New York Foundation for the Arts.[citation needed]