She is the former editor & storyteller of Milkweed Editions, and the current senior editor of prose at Seventh Wave; she received a BA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College, and an MFA in Fiction and Nonfiction from The New School. Her words have appeared in Midnight & Indigo, Seventh Wave, Guernica, and elsewhere. She currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with her three hairless cats and more books and houseplants than she can count.