Education
She was educated at Middlebury College as an undergraduate (class of 1997) and lived for many years in New York City where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College (studying with Michael Cunningham).
She was educated at Middlebury College as an undergraduate (class of 1997) and lived for many years in New York City where she obtained her Master of Fine Arts at Brooklyn College (studying with Michael Cunningham).
Her debut novel, The Last Summer of the World, was published by West. West. Norton & Company in 2007. lieutenant concerns the photographer Edward Steichen in the context of World War I and was a finalist for the 2008 Young Lions Award for fiction. Her writing has appeared in Guernica, The Indiana Review, AGNI, The Nation, and The Utne Reader.
She resided in San Francisco, California.
She is currently an Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Maryland.
