Tonya Plank's Biography

Tonya Plank worked as a criminal appeals attorney in New York City for many years. A former competitive ballroom dancer and a longtime balletomane, she writes the popular dance blog, "Swan Lake Samba Girl," which has been lauded by James Wolcott of Vanity Fair and Terry Teachout of the Wall Street Journal and has been cited in those publications as well as CNN.com, the New York Times ArtsBeat blog, and the Washington Post. Her law review articles have been cited in several books. Her first novel, Swallow, was published in December 2009.