Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, podcast host & speaker who believes that stories save us.
Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, podcast host & speaker who believes that stories save us.
Upcoming Events
- I will be an instructor at Write on the Sound in Edmonds, WA this year teaching a 3-hour workshop: Putting the Plot in Your Memoir on Friday Oct 3 from 1-4. I’m also one of five writing instructor-editors offering consultations on works-in-progress on Saturday Oct 4. I’m looking forward to meeting with writers and talking memoir craft this Fall. If you think you might be interested in attending, mark your calendars for registration which opens in July; I’ll post a link when that’s live.
- Additional memoir writing classes coming soon!
Stories save us.
Let’s Talk Memoir is a podcast for memoir lovers, readers and writers, featuring interviews with memoirists about their writing process, their challenges, and what they’ve learned about sharing the most personal of narratives. Hosted by writer, speaker, and memoirist Ronit Plank, each episode highlights different aspects of the memoir writing experience, writing tips, and inspiration.
Recently on Let’s Talk Memoir
Episode 169 ft. Vicky Nguyen
Vicky Nguyen joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about growing up Vietnamese in America and what this country has meant for someone like her, writing memoir as a public figure, pivoting as a writer, not being too quick to self-edit, managing backstory to keep a...
Episode 168 ft. KB Brookins
KB Brookins joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about transness, masculinity, and race, how how being a writer has crystalized their experience and made it legible to an audience and to themselves, turning to prose to say the hard things, the tenacity of...
Praise for Let’s Talk Memoir and Ronit Plank
Books by Ronit Plank
When She Comes Back
“An intimate, intuitive, emotionally vivid account that finds hope in reconciliation.” – Kirkus Reviews
When She Comes Back is a memoir about the loss of Ronit’s mother to the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru at the center of the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, and their eventual reconciliation. It’s also the story of a family trying to find itself, grownups who don’t know how to be adults, and what happens when the person your life revolves around can’t stay.
Home Is a Made Up Place
“A poignant and melancholy collection of stories about the constant search for a place to belong.” – Kirkus Reviews
Bracing and intimate, Home is a Made-Up Place is a collection of stories about reclaiming personal power, recognizing the difference between what can and cannot be changed, and the pull of familial attachments despite the toll they might take.