I'm a former journalist for organizations including the Wall Street Journal, Knight-Ridder and NBC who has worked extensively both in Asia and in the US. My fiction has appeared in Thema, Carve, Small Spiral Notebook and Confrontation Magazines. I majored in English and Asian Studies at Amherst College, have a degree in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins SAIS, and an MFA in fiction from Columbia University. I live in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn with my husband Michael, a documentary filmmaker, and our two daughters.

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My first novel, "The Painter from Shanghai,"is published by WW Norton in the US, where it is a Book-of-the-Month club alternate pick for April. It will also be published by Viking/Penguin in the UK (where it will also be the Penguin Book Club of the Month pick, for June), as well as by publishers in Brazil, Romania Germany, Holland, Spain, Italy, Poland and Russia (so far!).