• King of the World, published in 1990 by Pushcart Press, won the Editors’ Book Award for “an important and unusual book of literary distinction.”
• The Kingdom of Brooklyn, published in 1992 by Longstreet Press, was awarded the Harold U. Ribalow Prize given by Hadassah Magazine for “the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme.”
• “I Don’t Believe This,” first published in The Atlantic, was chosen for Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards 1986.
• “At The Fence,” first published in The Sewanee Review, was awarded The Andrew Lytle Fiction Prize for the best story in The Sewanee Review in 1985.
• “Hairdos” won the Fiction Network competition in 1985.
• Gerber received the Prairie Schooner’s Reader’s Choice Award in 1989 for “Chicken Skin Sandwiches.”
• In 1992, she was awarded Best American Short Story Citation for “Honest Mistakes.”
• Gerber was honored as an “alumna of outstanding achievement” in 1997 by the University of Florida.
• In 1998, her story “This Is A Voice From Your Past,” first published in The Chattahoochee Review, was included in The Best American Mystery Stories 1998.
• Gerber’s lengthy autobiographical essay appears in the Gale Research reference series Contemporary Authors’ Autobiography Series, Volume 20.