E.J. Graff’s awards, grants, and honors have included:
- 2010 Clarion Award for Best Newspaper Feature Story, Daily Circulation +500,000 for “The Adoption Underworld”
- 2009 Clarion Award for Best Magazine Feature Article, External Publication, Circulation 100-000 – 500,000 Current News for “The Lie We Love”
- 2009 Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism Honorable Mention for Magazine Reporting for “The Lie We Love”
- 2009 Peter Jennings Journalist Fellow
- 2008 Sigma Delta Chi Award in Journalism for best in Magazine Investigative Reporting for “The Lie We Love”
- 2008 James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for “The Lie We Love”
- 2008 Clarion Award for Best Magazine Feature Article, External Publication, Circulation 100,000 or less, for “The Opt-Out Myth”
- 2008 Special Honor for Excellence in Reporting on the Media, Council on Contemporary Families, for “The Opt-Out Myth”
- 2005-2006 Dorothy Tavris Travel Grant, Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center
- 2005 Judge, Astraea Foundation’s Emerging Writers Award
- 2004-2005 Dorothy Tavris Travel Grant, Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center
- 2003 Judge, Publishing Triangle Awards for nonfiction
- 2000-2001 Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Journalism, Harvard Law School
- 2001 The Nation Institute Investigative Fund Research Award Grant
- 1999-2004 Board of Directors, New Words Live/Center for New Words
- 1998-1999 Affiliated Scholar, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
- 1998 Judge, Astraea Foundation’s Emerging Writers Award
- 1997-1998 Visiting Scholar, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College
- 1996 Margolis Award for political essay and journalism
- 1996 Massachusetts Cultural Council Award for Fiction
- 1995 Watertown Cultural Council Award for Fiction
- 1993 Astraea Foundation’s Emerging Writers Award
- 1989 Massachusetts Artists Foundation award
- 1989, 1997 Yaddo Fellow
- 1988 MacDowell Colony Fellow