
Teaching areas: creative writing; short fiction, novels, novels for teens, screenwriting, creative nonfiction; contemporary American literature, Jewish American literature, young adult literature, publishing.
Novels: If Only (Harper Collins), We Were Never Here (Harper Collins), The Mothers (Scribner), Something Red (Scribner), Golden Country (Scribner), The Greats (publishing in Fall ’27)
Selected Honors: Finalist,National Jewish Book Award; Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Finalist Harold U. Ribalow Prize; Finalist, Longlist, International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; Indie Next Picks; Book Sense Notable Books; Amazon top ten Debut Fiction; Macdowell Colony Fellowship; Visiting Lecture Fellowship, Harvard University; Harvard Teaching Excellence Award