My latest novel, The Blue Window, was published in January 2023 by Scribner. The paperback has just been released.

I am the author of four previous novels: The Dogs of Littlefield, The Ghost at the Table, A Perfect Arrangement, and A Crime in the Neighborhood, which won Great Britain’s Orange Prize, now The Women’s Prize. 

I have written frequently for The New York Times and The Washington Post, and published essays and articles in numerous magazines. For many years I taught creative writing, first at Harvard University and then at Boston College and at the Ranier Writing Workshop in Tacoma, WA.  Most recently, I was the Affiliate Scholar at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute. My husband and I live outside of Boston. We have two daughters.