Her short fiction has appeared in "Story", "Redbook", "Southwest Review", "Gargoyle", "The Connecticut Review", the "Vestal Review", "Boulevard Magenta" "five Chapters," and elsewhere. Her short story "Sleeping", originally in "Vestal Review" and anthologized several times, was made into a short dramatic film by Group-Six Productions. Her first novel, "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear", was published in 1995. She was named by "Granta" to the controversial list of 50 Best Young American Novelists in 1996. Her second novel, "The Music Lesson", was published in 1999 and has since been translated into thirteen foreign languages. It was a selection of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. Her third novel, "The Little Women", a Finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize, was published 2003. All three novels have been named Notable Books by The New York Times Book Review.