[7][8] She has been influenced by the work of Flannery O'Connor, Alice Neel, Lorrie Moore, Roy Litchenstein, and Andy Warhol.
"[7] Despite her struggle with dyslexia, Weatherwax went on to graduate from the Rhode Island School of Design.
[9][10] Weatherwax began her artistic career as a visual artist, working professionally sculpting superheroes and cartoon characters for Nickelodeon, DC Comics, Warner Brothers, and Pixar.
"[16] All We Had was optioned by Katie Holmes, who adapted the story into a movie in her directorial debut.
[17][18][19] As an author, she won the 2009 Robert Olen Butler Prize for Fiction,[9][20] and her work has been published in The New York Times, The Sun Magazine, Ploughshares,[21] The Southern Review,[22] among others.