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Author of The Spiral Shell

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Published Work

Essays

“Is This The Secret To A Better Marriage,” The Ethel, November 2021

“Eulogy For a Dress, Or The Life I Didn’t Live,” Pithead Chapel, October 2021

“How I turned Essays into Memoir” Brevity Nonfiction blog

“How I came to write The Spiral Shell”, Women Writers, Women’s Books

A Force Outside Myself: Citizens over 60 Speak, McSweeney’s

“Transit Camp: Myths and Realities of Prague’s Lost Jews,” Ascent, November 2020

“Stones Sipping Air,” Tiferet, Spring/Summer 2019

“Beautiful Hair,” Solstice, A Magazine of Diverse Voices, Winter 2017-18

“Brown Leather Satchel,” Fourth Genre, Fall 2017

“A Review of Claudia Rankine’s Citizen, An American Lyric,” Brevity Magazine, January, 2016

“The Crossing,” Blue Lyra Review, Fall 2015

“The Memory Palate,” 1966 Journal, December 2014,

“The Memory Palate,” A Pink Suitcase, 22 Tales of Women’s Travel,

“Houses,” ASCENT, February 2014, nominated, Best of the Net, 2014

“Pilgrimage,” Ploughshares, Winter 2013-2014

“Hidden Messages,” Stone Voices, Winter 2013

“The Path,” TOSKA, Winter 2013

“The Groves,” CALYX, Summer 2013

“Hiding,” ASCENT, August 27, 2012, notable essay, Best American Essays, 2013

“This is Blood,” Twelve Breaths A Minute, 2011, At the End of Life, True Stories of How We Die, Creative Nonfiction Books, 2012

“Circling My Father,” winner Michael Steinburg Essay Prize, Fourth Genre, 2011

“She’s Fine,” Dutiful Daughters, Caring for our Parents as They Grow Old, Seal Press, 1999

“Canning Jars,” Surviving Crisis, Twenty Prominent Authors Write About Events That Shaped their Lives, Tarcher/Putnam, 1997, Honorable Mention, Narrative nonfiction, Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition 2014

“December Dilemma,” Lilith Magazine, 1996
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“A Father’s Daughter,” Calliope, 1988

 

Fiction

“Midrash,” Redux, 2012, first published, the New England Review, 1997

“Minstrel,” Persea Books, 2007

“Fictions,” Ploughshares, Spring 2002

“The Temple Chooses a Rabbi,” Bridges, 1996

“Winter Without Snow,” Green Mountains Review, 1991

“The Wound,” Ploughshares, 1987

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