Author of three collections of stories: Reasons to Live (Knopf, 1985), At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom (Knopf, 1990) and Tumble Home (Scribner, 1997). Co-editor of Unleashed (Crown, 1995). Stories have first appeared in such places as Harper's, Vanity Fair, The Quarterly, The Yale Review and others, and have been widely anthologized, including The Best American Short Stories, The Pushcart Prize and The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. Her nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Elle, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Mirabella, Interview, Bomb, many others. She is a contributing editor to Bomb Magazine. She has taught at New York University, The New School, Bennington College (currently there, member of the Core Faculty in the MFA Writing Program), and at many conferences across the country, including Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers' conference.