Fiction Writer
Publications & Prizes
New York Foundation of the Arts, Fiction. Henfield Transatlantic Fiction Award. DeJur Award, New York Foundation of the
Arts Award in Drawing. Newhouse Award. Juniper Award in Fiction. Fulbright Fellow to Paraguay 2008-9. The Amazing True Story of a Teenage Single Mom, first published in 1998 by Hyperion and released in 2016 as a paperback by Graymalkin Press, won two American Library Association Awards, was named a Top Ten Book of the Year by Entertainment Weekly and was nominated for a Eisner Award.