Career
Her novels include Gone (2012), Sweet Ruin (2006), and My Sister"s Bones (1996). Hanauer"s articles, essays and criticism have appeared in Elle, O-the Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Glamour, Self, Whole Living, and other magazines. She wrote the monthly books column for both Glamour and Mademoiselle and was the monthly relationships advice columnist for Seventeen for seven years.
A graduate of the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and of the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Arizona, she has taught writing at The New School, in New York, and at the University of Arizona, in Tucson.
She has two children and currently lives in Western Massachusetts.