Current Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, a finalist for the National Book Award, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Fiction, and many others. Her collection Her Body and Other Stories is listed in the New York Times as a member of the "New Vanguard," one of "15 remarkable books written by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century."