Zane Kotker lives beside the Connecticut River, halfway between her childhood home in Vermont and the playground in Manhattan where she raised her kids. She has published four novels with Knopf/Random House and is finishing a fifth. She has won a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, enjoyed stays at MacDowell, Yaddo, Villa Montalvo and Fundación Valparaiso, and been included in the American Audio Prose Library. 

When her husband, the writer Norman Kotker, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, she found it necessary to give up fiction for the bread and butter work of journalism, using the name of a great grandmother, Maggie Strong, as pseudonym. One magazine piece led to the book Mainstay: For the Well Spouse of the Chronically Ill. Nine readers joined Maggie in establishing the Well Spouse Association as a resource for men and women caring for husbands and wives.

Now Maggie is gone and Zane has returned to fiction.