Background
She was born in New York City in 1979.
She was born in New York City in 1979.
She attended Harvard University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude in 2001, with a Bachelor of Arts in English and American Literature and Language.
She earned an Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction from the University of California at Irvine in 2004, where she was the recipient of the Schaffer Writing Fellowship. In addition to her novels, she has written short fiction for Wind, The Evansville Review, The Missouri Review, The Red Rock Review, and Indiana Review. She lives and works in Savannah, Georgia.