Author of With or Without You, a NYTimes bestselling memoir, and Last Day, a novel, which was also named one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year by NYTimes. Her short fiction has been published in the Boston Review, the Indiana Review and Epoch. Her essays have appeared in 9th Letter, New York Magazine and elsewhere. She reviews books for the New York Times, Oprah.com and the American Scholar, and works as an editor, curator, and advocate for solo moms at ESME.com. She is co-editor of We Got This, an anthology of writing by and about single motherhood. SLC, 2022–