Publications

CALYX Journal: Homecoming
Winner Margarita Donnelly Prize for Prose Writing

HuffPost: My Mother Was A Cult Leader. At Her Funeral,
One Of Her Followers Put A Curse On Me.
HuffPost Personal’s “Best Of”

Los Angeles Times: Why I built my own tribe for Hanukkah

HerStry: The Tiger’s War
Shortlisted for Eunice Williams Non-Fiction Prize
Nominated for Best of the Net

Mud Season Review: Hollywood Chuck, Patron Saint of Wonderment

Mud Season Review: Author’s Interview  

Roanoke Review: The Melting Watch

Judith Magazine: The Beating of the Parpar’s Wings

Mid-Atlantic Review: Inheritances

Mid-Atlantic Review: Homemade Saints

The Sunlight Press: Monkey Bars

Quibble Lit: Finding Frankenstein’s Monkey in Costa Rica

Insider: On Mother’s Day

NPR/Next Avenue: Having “The Talk” with Friends

5 Minute Lit: Forgotten

On Being Jewish Now: Holocaust Remembrance Day Is Canceled

CIRQUE Literary Journal (p. 16): Holy Waters
Poetry contest winner

CIRQUE Literary Journal (pp.73-74): A Letter To The Woman I Almost Came To Fisticuffs With At The Food Co-Op, The One Downtown, Not The One Near The Mall; Performance monologue

Points in Case: Headstones at the Comedian Graveyard

Rejection Letters: Thanks for Submitting to Regrettable

Funny Pearls: Monday Nights in Hell

Spider Magazine: How Grandpa Micky Saved Hanukkah
(Also on McGraw-Hill’s Teachers’ Website)

HerStry Guest Editor: The Buddy System

San Jose Mercury News: She’s Religious, He’s Anything But

Bay Area Parent: A Muggle’s Musings

The Independent: Doing Lunch with President Clinton

The Path Columnist: Playing Hide and Seek with G-d.

Hazel Street Columnists: The Death of California Cool

Erma Bombeck Humorist-in-Residence: Finalist 

Writer’s Digest: Honorable Mention Writer’s Digest Non-Fiction Contest 

Elder Voices: Anthology/poetry

Sue Boynton Poetry Award: Two-time winner

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“Beautiful, deeply moving narrative, moved me to tears—a 21st century U.S. story of motherhood and estranged children, and authentically Jewish-observant; a story made new of loss and salvation.”
— Shirley Geok-lin Lim
Judge for Margarita Donnelly Prize
for Prose Writing: CALYX Journal
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