Her ﬁrst novel, The Serpent's Gift, was published by Atheneum, and her second novel, Water Marked, was published by Scribner. "Alphabet" is part of her next novel manuscript "Life Without," which is about the lives of ten people who are incarcerated in two neighboring U.S. prisons. She has volunteered as a creative writing teacher at several Massachusetts prisons for the last nine years.