News* Received the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism for work on women veterans of the Iraq War, April 2008. * Received a Freedom Forum residency fellowship at Yaddo, Feb. 2008. * THE OPPOSITE OF LOVE, a new novel, out from Viking Books. * At work on THE LONELY SOLDIER, a nonfiction narrative about female soldiers who have served in Iraq, to be published by Beacon Press. * Essay published on Salon.com about the sexual assault of women in the military: The Private War of Women Soldiers, 3/ * Taught a fiction writers workshop in Auvillar, France in July, 2007. To apply to future workshops visit www.vcca.com/ * Residential fellowship held at the Virginia Center for the Arts, Summer, 2006. * Essay, "The Language of Rape" appeared in the anthology "Transforming a Rape Culture," Milkweed Editions, 2005. * Taught fiction at the Paris Writers Workshop, and was a writer in residence in Auvillar, France, summer 2004. * The essay, "Fiction vs. Nonfiction" reprinted in "The Practical Writer," Penguin Books, 2004. * Wrote a new Afterword for Charlotte Bronte's VILLETTE, published in the Signet Classic Edition in 2004. * SAFE, STRONG and STREETWISE published in Hungary in May, 2004, under the title, "Stay Cool." This book has also been published in England, Italy, Brazil and the U.S. * RECOVERY published in the Czech Republic in 2003, the first book about rape in that country. * THE SAILOR'S WIFE published in Germany in 2003. The novel was named a Best Book of 2001 by The Los Angeles Times, and The New York Public Library recommended it as a Best Adult Book for Teenagers. |
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