Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Agni, The Sun, The Harvard Review, and in other places. Her first novel, The Sweet Relief of Missing Children (W.W. Norton), won the 2012 Maine Book Award and was a finalist for the Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize from the Center for Fiction. She holds an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MSW from Smith College School for Social Work.