I live between the Catskills and London and did the creative writing MA at the University of East Anglia. My story “As If I Could Assume Your Life” was published in the British collection X-24 Unclassified along with ones by Daniel Alarcón, Leila Lalami and Clare Wigfall. Read the story here.
My novel Our Greater Selves grew out of a story that was a finalist for Glimmer Train’s short story award for new writers.
The novel takes art and the sticks and lots of longing to be who you’re not. Together they add up to theft. Stealing a Leonardo to be precise, which doesn’t give the story away (that’s in the prologue and you can read it here). The book is Tamsen Souter’s memoir, her story of going from there to here – to her own personal Oz in Washington DC where she helped steal five paintings from the National Gallery of Art replacing the originals with forgeries. Now nearly two decades later, she tells her story of falling in love with the museum’s chief curator Philip Crompton-Booth and getting pulled into his crime.
