About
Until 2018, I was a journalist and award-winning nonfiction author, specializing in the nexus of business and social activism. I’ve been an editor and writer (on staff or long-time freelance) at Fortune, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, and many more publications. My eight nonfiction books include ETHICAL CHIC (Beacon Press), named one of the Best Books of 2012 by Library Journal, and PENSION DUMPING (Bloomberg Press), a ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2008.
But I’ve actually been writing fiction since I was four years old. My novel I MEANT TO TELL YOU (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2022) was a finalist for the Sarton Award, the Eric Hoffer Award, and many other honors, and my third novel, HER DAUGHTER, was published by Black Rose Writing in January 2026.
Even before my debut novel THE HEIRS was published in 2018, I was selected as a participant at the Bread Loaf Writers Conference in Vermont.
I also just launched a newsletter entitled "Writing in Italics" on Substack, and I’m at work on my next novel at my computer in Brooklyn NY
Featured Work
HER DAUGHTER
"I’m only telling you in case the police contact you. Esme was arrested, but I’m handling everything, and she doesn’t want to hear from you."
That email from her ex-husband is almost the only information Alice Wilson has had about her 23-year-old daughter, Esme, in the six years since Esme abruptly ended all communication.
As Alice, an environmental activist, scrambles to learn why Esme was arrested and what might happen next, she inevitably also retraces the past. Her obsessive search up and down the California coast antagonizes her friends and jeopardizes her job. But none of that matters to Alice, as she uncovers hints of a daughter she’d never known—and of her then-husband’s role in their estrangement, even while they were married:
--Why did Esme become bulimic in college?
--Who is the Robert Corning who was arrested with Esme and why did she pay his bail?
--Why is she continuing to push Alice away, yet still chummy with her father?
--Most important: Will Esme agree to meet with Alice? And if she does, will Alice say the wrong thing—whatever that wrong thing is?
Other Works
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I Meant to Tell You
2022
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THE HEIRS
2018
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ETHICAL CHIC: The Inside Story of the Companies We Think We Love
2012
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THE OVERLOADED LIBERAL: Shopping, Investing, Parenting, and Other Daily Dilemmas in an Age of Political Activism
2010
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PENSION DUMPING: The Reasons, the Wreckage, the Stakes for Wall Street
2008
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INSIDE THE FDA: The Business and Politics behind the Drugs We Take and the Food We Eat
2005
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THE MERCK DRUGGERNAUT
2003
Awards and Recognition
- for I MEANT TO TELL YOU: --Sarton Award, finalist --National Indie Excellence Awards, finalist in contemporary novel and women's fiction --International Book Awards, finalist in literary fiction and general fiction --Feathered Quill Book Awards, 2d place, Women's Fiction, and 3d place, Adult Fiction --Chanticleer International Book Award, semi-finalist for ETHICAL CHIC: --Library Journal, Best Books of 2012 (Business) for PENSION DUMPING: --ForeWord Magazine, Book of the Year 2008 (bronze medal, Business & Economics)
