in English literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A.

Her second novel, The English Teacher, was a Publishers Weekly Top Ten Book of the Year, a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, and the winner of the Maine Fiction Award.

Her third novel, Father of the Rain (2010), was a New York Times Editors Choice, a Publishers Weekly Best Novel of the Year, and winner of the New England Book Award for Fiction[2] and the Maine Fiction Award.

[3] King's fourth novel, Euphoria (2014), was inspired by events in the life of anthropologist Margaret Mead.

[10] Her short fiction has appeared in literary magazines, including Ploughshares and Glimmer Train, as well as in anthologies.