Representative publications

• The First Desire (novel), Pantheon, NY 2004
• House Fires (short story collection), University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA 1999
• Stories anthologized in O.Henry Award Stories 2005 (Anchor Books), Jewish in America (University of Michigan Press, 2004), Mother Knows: 24 Tales of Motherhood (Washington Square Press, 2004),Bestial Noise: A Tin House Reader (Bloomsbury Press, 2003), The Iowa Award: The Best Stories 1991-2000 (University of Iowa Press, 2001)

• Individual stories published in Tin House , Yale Review , Five Points , Kenyon Review , Glimmer Train, Michigan Quarterly Review, New England Review , Subtropics, Narrative , and other journals.