Selected Fiction

Debut novel Lilli de Jong, the diary of an unwed Quaker mother in 1883 Philadelphia who decides to try to keep her baby, published by Nan A. Talese/Doubleday in May 2017 and also released in audio book, e-book, large print, and paperback.

A story published in 2013 in the online magazine Switchback, “Instructions for Failure,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, as was “For Objects Do Sustain” in 2014 by the Green Hills Literary Lantern. “The Reason I’m Here” appeared in the winter 2013 issue of The Tulane Review.

Selected Nonfiction

ESSAY, “What Makes a Story ‘Big’ or ‘Small’?” July 13, 2018, in Signature Reads. (Read on blog here.)

ESSAY, “7 Works of Historical Fiction That Changed Me,” July 13, 2018, on Knopf Doubleday Reading Group Center.

ESSAY, “Stories Have Made Me Who I Am,” July 9, 2018, on Read Her Like an Open Book.

ESSAY, “The Power of a Diary,” May 16, 2017, on Read Her Like an Open Book.

Essay, “In storytelling, finding joy and understanding” (The Weight of a Story), Sunday Commentary section, March 19, 2017, in the Philadelphia Inquirer (also see text here).

ESSAY on how sensory data makes readers keep reading, May 18, 2017, in Signature: Making Well-Read Sense of the World (see text here).

ESSAY, “In the Name of Fairness, Don’t Erase Women’s History,” March 20, 2016, Philadelphia Inquirer (see text here).

ESSAY, “A Feminist’s Daughter Finds Love in the Kitchen,” October 6, 2013. Read in the New York Times.

Documentary Films

Script co-writer and team member for “Promise for a Better City (1944-1964).” Episode 3 in the series Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Aired on 6ABC.

Script editor and team member for “Fever: 1793.” Episode 2 in the series Philadelphia: The Great Experiment. Aired on 6ABC. Winner of three Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards.