Cakewalk, A Memoir (forthcoming June 2010, The Dial Press)

Because I Said So: 33 Mothers Write About Children, Sex, Men, Aging, Faith, Race & Themselves, coedited with Camille Peri (HarperCollins, 2006)

Wintering, A Novel of Sylvia Plath (Anchor Books, 2003)

Mothers Who Think: Tales of Real-life Parenthood, coedited with Camille Peri (Washington Square, 2000)

Recent Contributions to:
The Unraveling Archive, Essays on Sylvia Plath edited by Anita Helle (U. of Michigan Press, 2007)

Bad Girls: 26 Writers Misbehave edited by Ellen Sussman (Norton, 2007)

The Salon Reader's Guide to Contemporary Authors edited by Laura Miller (Penguin, 2000)