Just as life during the pandemic was color-coded with different hues representing different levels of danger, life in its aftermath has become shaded in similar ways. As a self-styled “Seeker of Beauty with Beauty,” (borrowing from a quote by W.E.B.
I am the author of two novels, Plain Language (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster), a love story about two strangers who meet and start a ranch on the Colorado Plains during the Dust Bowl, and Easy Money (Algonquin Books), about a woman whose father gambles away her college money and sets off for New York to make her way. I recently finished White Hands, about three women friends during the El Salvador civil war--a New York Times journalist, a painter and a therapist--who become entangled with the death squads. At present, I am working on my fourth novel, Dream a World, based on the race riots and coup d'etat in Wilmington North Carolina in 1898.
Birth Place
High Point, NC
Accomplishments
Spur Award from Western Writers of America
William Rockhill Nelson Award
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