Novack's short stories have been published in
The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, Gulf Coast, Descant, and
Chattahoochee Review.
Stephen King named Novack's story "Memphis" a "Distinguished Story" in
The Best American Short Stories, published in 2007. She has been nominated three times for a
Pushcart Prize, and her nonfiction work "Hunk" was nominated as a runner-up for the 2006 Iowa Review Award, and she is a recipient of the 2010-2011 Christopher Isherwood Foundation Fellowship and 2011 Illinois Arts Council grant. Her short story collection,
Everyone But You, was published by
Random House in 2011. Her work has been translated into
Dutch. ==Personal life==