Career
She is the author of four novels,,, and, and a memoir, Breakup (1999). She was the coeditor of the literary magazine Between C & Doctorate, is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and has written for Newsday, ELLE, Harper"s Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Nerve.com. She also edited the anthologies Between C and Doctorate: New Writing from the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine (1988) and Love is Strange: Tales of Postmodern Romance (1993), both with former spouse Joel Rose.
The translator of several books, she is a recipient of two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and a National Endowment for the Arts Award, her work has been translated into ten languages.
