Career
She is the wife of American television writer Rob LaZebnik, with whom she has four children. Her novels include Same as lieutenant Never Was, Knitting Under the Influence, and The Smart One and the Pretty One. She has co-written two books on autism with Doctor Lynn Koegel of the Koegel Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
In the second, Growing up on the Spectrum (2009), the everyday issues of adolescents with autism are addressed.