She was nominated for five Emmy awards for her six years of work as a writer for David Letterman.

[6] Her first novel, Girls' Poker Night (published by Random House in 2002), was a New York Times bestseller.

She holds an MFA in Fiction from NYU [9] and has an honorary Ph.D. in Arts & Letters from Endicott.

She also wrote and published a number of screenplays, teleplays, short stories and magazine articles.

She is married to Edward Conard and lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.