EDUCATION:
Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, MA, 1976-78
M.S.W.
Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 1972-75
B.A., Theater/Political Science, Magna Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa
Printable C.V.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Author of two novels, two collections of short stories, and a nominee for both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards, and numerous anthologies here and abroad. She has written for the New Yorker, the New York Times Magazine, the Atlantic Monthly, among many other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Her latest novel, Away, is an epic story about a Russian immigrant.
UNDERGRADUATE COURSES: Advanced Fiction Writing, Writing for Children
