Tonya
Plank worked as a criminal appeals attorney in New York City for many years. A former
competitive ballroom dancer and a longtime balletomane, she writes the dance
blog, “Swan Lake Samba Girl,”which has been lauded by James Wolcott
of Vanity Fair and Terry Teachout of
the Wall Street Journal and has been
cited in those publications as well as CNN.com, the New York TimesArtsBeat blog,
and the Washington Post. Her law
review articles have been cited in several books. Swallow, her first novel, won a gold medal for best fiction set in the northeast in the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards, the gold medal for women's fiction in the 2010 Living Now Book Awards and was a finalist in the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. She currently lives in New York and is working on her second novel, a legal / urban drama.
