and the novel Iodine (2008), a psychological tale about a young woman with dark secrets. Works 2001 A Girl Named Zippy: Growing up Small in Mooreland, Indiana, memoir () 2002 The Solace of Leaving Early, novel () 2003 Orville: A Dog Story, children's book () 2004 Something Rising (Light and Swift), novel () 2005 She Got Up Off the Couch, and Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana, memoir () 2007 The Used World, novel () 2008 Kaline Klattermaster's Tree House, children's book () 2008 Iodine, novel () Awards and honors Nominee, Orange Prize (England), 2003, for The Solace of Leaving Early. Received two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grants. References 1965 births Living people American children's writers 21st-century American memoirists American women novelists American Quakers Ball State University alumni North Carolina State University alumni People from Muncie, Indiana People from New Castle, Indiana Writers from Durham, North Carolina Novelists from Indiana 21st-century American novelists American women poets American women memoirists American women children's writers 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American poets Novelists from North Carolina