Her fiction appears in Narrative, Guernica, Joyland, American Short Fiction, Best Debut Short Stories, and The Best American Short Stories. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she has received fellowships and support from Tin House, Kundiman, Kweli, the Periplus Collective, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. She is a winner of the PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize and has taught creative writing at the University of Iowa. Raised in the Bay Area and New York City, she currently lives in Brooklyn.