Author, editor, educator & storyteller

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3 essays in 3 anthologies: 

 

• "Ink Stains and Blood Stains: The Spring of My Becoming" in INK by Hippocampus Books, 2022. ​

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• "When Your Period is a Religious Affair," in STAINED: An anthology of writing about menstruation, by Querencia Press, 2023. 

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• "Belly," in Awakenings: Writing on the Body & Consciousness by ELJ Editions, October 2023.

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Essays in magazines, journals, and news outlets: 

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• "Your Body, Your Wunderkammer," BREVITY BLOG, September 6, 2024. 

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• "Hineini: Here I Am, a Former Mikveh Dissenter and Bride (again) at 57," MAYYIM HAYYIM, February 25, 2024. 

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• "Twenty-Three Loads of Laundry," THE MANIFEST STATION, January 13, 2024. 

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• "A Collaboration of Bodies: How Publishing in an Anthology Can Expand Your Literary Community," BREVITY BLOG, November 15, 2023.

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• "Seven Times Around My Husband(s): the Growing Pains (and Pleasures) of a Convert to Judaism,"  LOOSE LIPS MAGAZINE, May 10, 2023. 

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• "Skin in the Game" in HER STRY, March 13, 2023.

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• "Falling" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, September 15, 2022. 

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• "Little Peeper" in VINE LEAVES PRESSE'S 50 Give or Take, June, 2022. 

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• "How Creating a Writing Workshop Brought Me Back to My (Neglected) Memoir," BREVITY BLOG, May 3, 2022.

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• "Our Time" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, May, 2022. 

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• "Taking Holocaust Education to TikTok" in TABLET MAGAZINE, April 1, 2022.  

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• "An Impulsive Move and a Pandemic" in FULL GROWN PEOPLE, March 3, 2022.

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• "Mail Order Bride" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, September 15, 2021. 

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• "After Painful Losses, I am Finally Living My Dream Life at 55," AARP's THE ETHEL, September 3, 2021.

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• A Tale of Two Converts" in MOMENT MAGAZINE, August 20, 2021. 

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• "Make Your Own Gravlaks" in TABLET MAGAZINE, June 16, 2021.

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• "Why Oslo Ran Out of Matzo" in TABLET MAGAZINE, May 11, 2021. 

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• "Collector of Passports," SAD GIRLS CLUB, May 10, 2021. 

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• "Adapting Holocaust Stories for Young Readers" in TABLET MAGAZINE, April 6, 2021. 

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• "A Passover Snack That Packs a Crunch" in TABLET MAGAZINE, March 26, 2021. 

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• "The Deep End" in DOROTHY PARKER'S ASHES, March 15, 2021. 

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• "I Forgot to Tell My Son it's OK to Be a Secular Jew," KVELLER, November 30, 2020. 

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• "Tale of Two Converts," MOMENT MAGAZINE, November 12, 2020. 

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• "October 8, 2010," PAST TEN, October 8, 2020. 

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• "As a New Convert, I Thought It Was Okay to...," THE FORWARD, October 6, 2020.

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• "Saying Goodbye to Seafood," TABLET MAGAZINE, June 16 2020.

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• "Nirvana: How the Lockdown Released an Easily Distracted Writer," BREVITY BLOG, April 22 2020.

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• "Authentic gravlaks from a Viking Jewess," THE CANADIAN JEWISH NEWS, January 28 2020.

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• "On Reading Outside Our Genre," BREVITY BLOG, February 11 2019.

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• "Trondheim Instead of Oslo," THE WASHINGTON POST, September 26 2019. ​

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• "Latchkey Kid," POYDRAS REVIEW, June 11 2018. 

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• "Post-Holiday Glee: My First Purim in Maine," LILITH BLOG, March 2 2018.

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• "Ideaphoria Redux. Or, Writer's Shpilkes," BREVITY BLOG, February 23 2018. 

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• "My Snowy, Cold and Uplifting Night at a Mikvah in Oslo," JEWESS, February 19 2018.

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• "A Writing Life, Despite," BREVITY BLOG, January 16 2017. 

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• "A Disturbing but Profound Interaction With the Other," HEVRIA, February 20 2017. 

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• "Why We Have to Learn About Sephardic Holocaust Stories," LILITH BLOG, March 7, 2017.

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• "The Extraordinary Story of Gisèle Braka, A Sephardic Jew in the Holocaust," LILITH BLOG, March 20, 2017.

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• "Silent Witness: A Night at the Morgue," THE MANIFEST-STATION, April 26 2017.

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• "The Making of the Viking Jewess," LILITH MAGAZINE, Winter 2015-2016. 

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• "I Love Your Family, But I Dread Your Joyous Holiday Letters," THE WASHINGTON POST, November 30 2016. 

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• "Learning to be Frugal," THE HUFFINGTON POST, June 23 2016.

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• "My Friend died of Cancer. Six Months Later I Met Her Widower's Girlfriend," THE WASHINGTON POST, July 6 2015.

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• "My Cathartic Writing Experience," LITERARY MAMA, August 31 2015. 

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• "Why I resent the Term 'Alimony'," THE HUFFINGTON POST, August 6 2015. 

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