Tonya Plank

@tonyaplank

About

TonyaPlank worked as a criminal appeals attorney in New York City for many years. A formercompetitive ballroom dancer and a longtime balletomane, she writes the danceblog, “Swan Lake Samba Girl,”which has been lauded by James Wolcottof Vanity Fair and Terry Teachout ofthe Wall Street Journal and has beencited in those publications as well as CNN.com, the New York Times ArtsBeat blog,and the Washington Post. Her lawreview 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.