Zane Kotker

Married and with two children under two, Zane Kotker wrote her first novel on Tuesday and Friday mornings when the babysitter came. "Bodies in Motion" was accepted by Bob Gottlieb at Knopf, to be followed by "A Certain Man" and "White Rising." When her husband, the writer Norman Kotker, was stricken with multiple sclerosis, she turned to nonfiction, sometimes writing under the name of Maggie Strong. She returned to fiction in the late 1990s with "Try to Remember," and soon began researching for "The Inner Sea." Her short stories have appeared in "Alaska Quarterly Review," "The Antioch Review," and elsewhere. She has received a fiction grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Must Read 2012 from the Massachusetts Center for the Book for her chapbook, "Old Ladies in the Locker Room and Pool." She lives beside the Connecticut River, halfway between her childhood home in Vermont and the playground in Manhattan where she raised her kids.

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