Life
She graduated from Stanford University with a B.A., and the University of Iowa with a Ph.D.
She taught at University of Massachusetts Boston; she was the Pauline Delaney Chair in Creative Writing at Oberlin College.
She is editor of Field magazine. She is a member of International PEN.
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