is the author of Poster Child: A Memoir (BloomsburyUSA); The Still Point of the Turning World (Penguin Press), which was a New York Times bestseller, Editor’s Pick, and a finalist for a PEN award; Sanctuary (Random House), a New York Times Editor’s Pick; Frida Kahlo and My Left Leg (Nottinghill Editions/New York Review of Books); and I Would Die If I Were You: Notes on Creativity, Craft and Consciousness, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press in 2026. She is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
