Debra Spark is the author of four books of fiction, including The Pretty Girl (Four Way, 2012), Coconuts for the Saint (Faber & Faber, Avon, 1996) The Ghost of Bridgetown (Graywolf Press, 2001), and Good for the Jews (University of Michigan, 2009). Her popular lectures on writing are collected in Curious Attractions: Essays on Fiction Writing (University of Michigan Press, 2005) and she is editor of the anthology Twenty under Thirty. She teaches at Colby College in Maine. (updated 4/2015)

Spark’s Coconuts for the Saint was reviewed in AGNI 41 by Catherine Carter.