Creative Writing
The World at Our Table: A Euro-American Cookbook of Family Favorites
A full-length illustrated cookbook of recipes from my own Euro-American kitchen, with origin stories, cooking tips to live by, and tantalizing images by artist Serena Faye Feingold on every page.
“Air Hunger”
Poem in Unleashed Lit about a life-changing (but ultimately, not life-ending) health crisis and the hazards of being a female patient.
“Cerulean Blue”
Short story in anthology Seeking Its Own Level (MOTESBooks, 2014), on the theme of water. Nominated for 2015 Best Anthology, Next Generation Indie Book Awards, with contributors including Margaret Atwood, Maurice Manning, Amy Hempel, Bret Anthony Johnston, Jill McCorkle, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Jamie Quatro, Roxanne Gay, Richard Hague, and Jesse Graves.
“Chasing the Sun: Working with Hana Andronikova’s The Sound of the Sundial”
Personal essay in the journal Necessary Fiction about the complex and fascinating process of adapting conflicting translations of acclaimed Czech author Hana Andronikova’s first novel, The Sound of the Sundial.
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“Borderline, or Why Won’t They Let Me?”
My personal essay in The PERCH Magazine at Yale University on grappling with the loss of my mother, who had Borderline Personality Disorder and bipolar disease.
See page 174 of The PERCH, vol. 7, Substance.
“Title Transfer”
This short story, appearing with the U.K.’s époque press in their e-zine on the theme of Desire, portrays the yearning for a lost lover expressed in gestures, texts, and objects—the spasms of desire that continue, sometimes long after a couple has separated. In toggling between sorrow and humor, from the lingering intimacy of a dying romance to the Kafkaesque tragicomedy of the Department of Motor Vehicles’ bureaucracy, it also explores the search for normalcy, the hope of settling into a new self that feels true.
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“Finding Mr. America”
An excerpt from an earlier version of my novel in progress, Finding Mr. America, in The Bennington Review. This is a coming-of-age historical fiction about the teenage daughter of covert anti-war activists who, after a nomadic childhood in Europe, finds herself living with family friends in suburban Connecticut as she searches for a sense of belonging amid the xenophobia and persistent antisemitism of the 1970s. Based loosely on my immigrant experience.
