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Biography

I grew up in a loving family in idyllic Demarest, N.J., and graduated from Marymount School of New York. I began writing professionally while I was a student at Barnard College, Columbia University.

A collection of poems I wrote during college won the Lenore Marshall Prize for Poetry. When I talked to my advisor about careers, she paused and said, “Well, of course, you’ll be a poet.” That seemed too solitary. I wanted to find and tell stories, to explore. So, I took a job at a newspaper. I wrote non-fiction for years. More recently I’ve begun writing poetry and fiction again.

A note about this site. I blog about books, movies, theatre, travel. I’ve posted some of my favorite clips, from mini reviews to multipage profiles and features. Too, I share with you “The Bicycle Poem,” which won the prize that started my career.

In the blog

Books: Best of 2010

Can a book bring you solace? Zachary Mason’s “The Lost Books of the Odyssey” was a comfort to me. Everything about this slender tome — its tone, its elegant paper cover — soothed me during a physically trying time earlier this year. It’s small and slender, even in hardback, so I could easily carry it

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During lockdown, reading and watching

Lockdown continues. Me and mine are safe and well, so no complaining allowed. Here’s what — and where — I’ve been reading and watching. Lost Children Archive, by Valeria Luiselli. When this novel was first published I didn’t want to read it because it sounded too “of the moment” — a family travels to the

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Books: Rereading “A Fan’s Notes”

When I first read E. M. Forster’s “Where Angels Fear to Tread” I thought it a twisted comedy. (It is.) I read it again years later and found it sad — still a comedy, but threaded with tragedy. Loss, loss and more loss, complicated by squashed emotions and cultural misunderstanding. Why do we reread? I

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