1. She was born in 1958.
2. She earned her undergraduate degree from Colgate University.
3. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa.
4. She wrote a short story collection called The Secrets of a Fire King (1997), which was an alternate for the PEN/Hemingway Award.
5. Her first novel, The Memory Keeper's Daughter, was released in 2006 and won the Popular Fiction Award at the British Book Awards.
6. She teaches writing at the University of Kentucky.
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