About

My short fiction has appeared in Massachusetts Review, North American Review, and many other journals. PIECES, my first collection, includes stories named for the Pushcart Prize and Sundress Publications’ Best of the Net. THAT VERY PLACE, my second collection, will be published in 2025. The Junior Library Guild and the New York Public Library rank my YA novels among the best books for teens . WHERE YOU BELONG was a finalist for the National Book Award, and I've served on the foundation's panel of judges. After teaching English for almost a decade, I worked as a financial editor, mainly for Bloomberg. I now edit freelance, working with both fiction and nonfiction writers.

Other Works

  • PIECES, a composite novel

    2017
  • Crossing Into Brooklyn

    2015, 2020
  • Morning in a Different Place, stand-alone sequel to WHERE YOU BELONG

    2009, 2020
  • Cloud Dancer

    1994, 2015