She has an MFA in Fiction from New York University, where she was a New York Times Fellow. Her short stories have appeared in Callaloo, the Missouri Review, the Gettysburg Review, Tin House, Best American Short Stories 2003 and elsewhere. She is the recipient of the Chicago Tribune’s Nelson Algren Award for Short Fiction, a Pushcart Prize, a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2006, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. Henry Holt published her first novel, The Professor’s Daughter, in 2005. The Professor’s Daughter …