She is the author of the story collections Naked to the Waist and In the Gloaming and the novels Think of England[1] and Fellowship Point,[2] published by Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books in July 2022.
She was born Alice Elliott Kirby in Philadelphia and grew up in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania,[3] where she attended the Shipley School.
She started out as a poet and earned a masters of fine arts from Antioch, producing the chapbook This Is My Gun, Clyde as her thesis.
[4] Dark's novel Fellowship Point (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) was published to critical acclaim on July 5, 2022.
"In the Gloaming" was made into an HBO film starring Glenn Close and directed by Christopher Reeve.