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Something Red, my second novel, was published by Scribner in Spring of 2010, and was a New York Times Notable Book.  It was recently published in Paperback by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in Spring 2011.  (Take a look at some of the reviews here.)

My first novel, Golden Country was published in hardcover (Scribner) September 2006 and in paperback (Harcourt) in September 2007. Golden Country was  a New York Times Notable Book of 2006, an Amazon Top Ten Debut Fiction of 2006, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, on the long-list for the International IMPAC Dublin Prize, a finalist for the Harold U Ribalow Prize, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

I received my B.A. from Brandeis University in 1992, where I majored in English and Creative Writing, and minored in Women’s Studies. After college, I moved out to Seattle, where I became the producer and host of the radio program, “Talking Fiction” on KCMU, and the Senior Book Columnist for The Stranger.

In 1997, I received an M.F.A. in Fiction on a scholarship from Cornell University. There, I  was an editor at the literary magazine, Epoch, and I went on to teach creative writing and literature. After moving to Brooklyn in 1998, I freelanced, and worked for The Leonard Lopate Show at WNYC (it was called New York & Company back then) and as the book club host for A&E.com.  From 2001-2007,  I worked in publishing, as the publicity director at Harcourt.

My work has appeared in magazines and journals including the Alaska Review, Allure, BookForum, the Lincoln Center Theater Review, Los Angeles Times, Nerve, the New York Times Magazine, the New York Times Book Review, Salon, the Stranger, Tin House and the Washington Post. My personal essays have also been included in several anthologies including More New York Stories: The Best of the City Section of the New York Times, The Friend Who Got Away, Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave and How to Spell Chanukah.

I have been a MacDowell Fellow, and I’ve taught creative writing and literature at Cornell University, New York University, and at Eugene Lang College the New School.  I live in Brooklyn, New York.

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