Career
Her work has appeared in The Antioch Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Sun, Ploughshares, and Glimmer Train.
The movie Pay It Forward (Warner Brothers) was released in 2000, and starred Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment. The book has been translated into twenty languages for publication in more than thirty countries, and was chosen among the Best Books for Young Adults in 2001 by the American Library Association. The paperback was released in 1999 by Pocket Books and quickly became a national bestseller.
The April 20th, 2005 edition of Variety announced that Nicolas Cage has signed on to play Hayden Reese in the film adaptation of Electric God.
Two of her stories have been honored in the Raymond Carver Short Story Contest. She received second place in the 1998 Bellingham Review Tobias Wolff Award for Fiction. Nearly a dozen of her stories have been nominated for Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Award, and The Pushcart Prize.
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