Excerpt from the book won an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award. Previous Coffee House Publications Your Name Here_____: (1995, sold 1,800; $21.95; 1-56669-031-4) Exposed (1994, sold 1,800; $11.95; 1-566689-019-5); How to Leave a Country (1992, sold 2,000 $11.95; 0-918273-96-X). Set in Southern California, South Lake Tahoe to the Grand Canyon. Several books w/Fiction Collective 2: Is It Sexual Harassment Yet?, Chick-Lit and Chick-Lit 2 1996 Poets & Writers profile. Teaches at the Univ. of IL at Chicago. Attended Brooklyn College & San Diego State University.