The Middle of Everything: Memoirs of Motherhood. Spring 2005.

A New and Glorious Life. Carnegie-Mellon UP, 1998.

Missing Ohio State UP, 1991.

ANTHOLOGIES

Twenty Under Thirty: Best Stories by America's New Young Writers

Jewish-American Fiction: A Century of Stories.

AWARDS

Harold U Ribalow Prize, 1990, for Missing

Winner, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Winner, James Michener Fellowship

Winner, Greater Columbus Arts Council grant

Three Individual Artist's Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, in both fiction and nonfiction.

One of the 25 Best Books of the Year, Village Voice Literary Supplement, 1990, for Missing

University Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, Ohio State University

Nebraska Center for Writers