Minor Robberies and the novel
Vacation, winner of the 2009 Cabell First Novelist Award and a
New York Times Book Review Critics Choice. Her work has been featured in
Harper s Magazine,
The Believer, and the
Boston Review. She has received two Pushcart Prizes and a 2009 Creative Capital grant for Innovative Literature and was a
Harper s Bazaar Editors Choice: Name to Know in 2011. She teaches at Wesleyan University and currently lives in New York.