Background
She was born in Durango, Colorado, and grew up in New Mexico.
She was born in Durango, Colorado, and grew up in New Mexico.
University of Arizona. Johns Hopkins University.
She is a graduate of writing programs at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Arizona. She is the author of a short story collection, Red Ant House (2003), and a novel, Yellowcake (Houghton Mifflin, 2007). Yellowcake is about two families, Irish-catholic and Navajo, that are struggling with the laws of uranium mining.