I work as an artist, writer, and graphic designer. As an artist I have shown my work at galleries in Maine, Connecticut, Beacon, NY, and New York City and I am delighted to be part of Hudson Open Studios. As a writer, I am the author of two books: the New York Times bestselling memoir PERFECTION and EVA AND EVE, a family memoir about my mother's escape from Nazi-occupied Vienna and emigration to the United States in 1940. I post essays about life and creating and women's issues on my Substack: CONSIDER THE SPIDER. I have published essays in the New York Times, Salon, Dame, Catapult, and Sari Botton's Substacks OLDSTER and MEMOIR LAND. I have lead memoir-writing workshops at Chautauqua and other organizations and work one-on-one with writers. I have received fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. As a graphic designer, I am the art director for She Writes Press, an imprint of Stable Book Group distributed by Simon & Schuster. I live in Hudson, NY with my partner and we are both engaged in local environmental politics.