Alison's first novel, The Love-Artist, was published in 2001 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux[4] and has been translated into seven languages. It was followed by The Marriage of the Sea, a New York Times Notable Book[5] of 2003. Her latest novel, Natives and Exotics, appeared in 2005 and was one of that summer's recommended readings by Alan Cheuse[6] of National Public Radio.[7] Her short fiction and critical writing have recently appeared in Seed; Five Points; Postscript: Essays on Film and the Humanities; and The Germanic Review. She has also written several biographies for children and co-edited with Harold Bloom a critical series on women writers. She has taught writing and literature at Columbia University, Barnard College, Bryn Mawr College, and for writers groups in Geneva, Switzerland. She also participated in an on-line MOOC course for University of Virginia.[8] Having lived in Karlsruhe, Germany for the past 10 years, she recently moved to Miami, Florida, in 2007, and began teaching in the MFA Creative Writing program at the University of Miami.
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The Sisters Antipodes, ISBN0-15-101280-6 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009)