Author of Blue Glass, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and After Lydia, both published by Harcourt Brace. She is the founder and editor and chief of The Woven Tale Press, a premier online literary and fine art magazine with a following of over 10,000. She earned her BA from Amherst College and MFA in Writing from Columbia University. She has been a professor of writing on both the graduate and undergraduate levels, at Columbia, Wesleyan University, and Manhattanville College.