he has produced over 20 films, 8 of them Sundance Film Festival selections and award winners. Her movie credits as a producer include Hurricane Streets (1997), which won the Sundance awards for Audience, Best Director and Best Cinematography, Prozac Nation (2001), Lonesome Jim (2005), which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, The Baxter (2005), Grace Is Gone (2006) and Robot & Frank (2012), which won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at Sundance. She is one of the principals of Plum Pictures together with Jackie Kelman Bisbee and Lance Accord.

Her somewhat autobiographical novel A Taxonomy of Barnacles (2005) about rivalry among six sisters received mixed reviews, being described as "zany and witty" by one critic and "silly and contrived" by another. The book's surprise ending was mirrored in real life when her father had a seventh child, a son, a year after the book came out.

Her second novel The Romantics, about college classmates who get together for a wedding six years after graduation, where they compare their meager progress towards life's important goals and rekindle previous rivalries, was published in 2008 by St. Martin's Press. A motion picture with Katie Holmes, Adam Brody, Malin Akerman, Elijah Wood, Josh Duhamel and Anna Paquin was released in 2010.

Her novel Love and Happiness will be released in July 2013.

She lives in Brooklyn and is the daughter of hedge fund manager Victor Niederhoffer and Ms. Gail Niederhoffer; she is the niece of hedge fund manager Roy Niederhoffer.

She attended The Chapin School, Milton Academy and Harvard University. She was on Harvard’s varsity squash team.

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