She is the author of an internationally acclaimed novel, Wintering: A Novel of Sylvia Plath, published in fifteen languages and twenty countries, and Cakewalk: A Memoir, and is the coeditor of two bestselling anthologies of essays on motherhood. Recipient of a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a Janet Heidinger Kafka Award, a Prix des Lectrices de Elle, and an American Book Award, she has been a fellow at the Djerassi Foundation and the McDowell Colony. READ MORE