I've worked as a waitress (best job ever), an insurance broker (worst), a Macy's department manager (the discounts!), a child abuse litigator (heartbreaking), an adoption lawyer (most rewarding), a journalist for a nationally syndicated sounds-of-nature radio show (very cool), and an elementary and high school librarian (biggest inspiration for writing). The opening line of my co-authored Young Adult novel, UNRAVELING, (July 2008, Delacorte Press/Random House), came from a saying I pulled out of a fortune cookie three years ago-The smart thing is to prepare for the unexpected. It made me think about my senior prom, and that no matter how you try to prepare for the unexpected, sometimes you can't. I live in Bedford, N.Y. with her husband and children.