Her first novel, "Serious Girls", was published by Picador in 2003 and focused on the coming of age of two boarding school girls, Maya and Roe. Swann's second novel, "Flower Children", appeared in May 2007, published by Riverhead Books and won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from The Academy of Arts and Letters honoring "recent writing in book form that merits recognition for the quality of its prose style." Her third book, "The Foreigners" 2011, Riverhead, which traces the lives of four foreigners living in Buenos Aires, was called "a fearless novel," by Joseph O'Neill (author of "Netherland"), "beautifully written, sensual, seductive," by Kirkus Review and "atmospheric, evocative literary fiction that ruminates on what it means and how it feels to be foreign" by Booklist.