Published Work

Articles

8 ways parents can help support kids who think and learn differently – Care.com

Parent check: Why are you really sharing that photo of your kid on social media? (Care.com)

I proudly claim my Jewishness when once I hid it (The Times Of Israel)

As a Jewish Mother, President Zelensky Gives Me Courage (Moms Don’t Have Time to Write)

My mom left me twice to go live in an ashram. Now, as an adult, I am thankful she never took me with her. (Insider)

The More Painful Absence: a Review of Keema Waerfield’s Inside Passage (The Rumpus)

How My Childhood Shaped the Way I’m Teaching My Kids About Body Image (Scary Mommy)

Teens’ Personal Essays Give Me Hope – The Seattle Times

How Judging Others In Times of Crisis Can Make Us Feel Safe – P.S. I Love You

Ways to help kids cope with – and help combat – climate change (The Washington Post)

Before You Can Love the World, You Have to Love Yourself – Jewish in Seattle

Beyond the Spectacle of Wild Wild Country (The Atlantic)

What Kids Want You to Know (Seattle’s Child Magazine)

CRAFT ESSAYS

Set Your Pitch Apart: Getting Indie Bookstores to Say Yes to Your Book Event (Poets & Writers)

Memoir Scenes That Work: Choosing What Stays in Your Memoir and What Goes (Writer’s Digest)

How To Approach Your Friends and Family About Your Memoir (Writer’s Digest)

Can a Writer Have an Inner Life and a Social Media Presence? (Writer’s Digest)

Three Reasons I Could Stop Writing Memoir But Won’t (Brevity Blog)

Flash/Lyric

The Shadow in Me (Open Secrets Magazine)

We Had No Woman (Hippocampus)

Finally Reduced (Pithead Chapel)

Tiny Love Stories (The New York Times)

14 Years Later (Five Minute Lit)

That Same Game (Microfiction Monday Magazine)

10 Tips for Walking Alone At Night (The Citron Review)

Funeral (Burningword Literary Journal)

Hug (Matter Press)

Everything You Care About (Inkwell Magazine)

MEMOIR ESSAYS

What Dr. Ruth Gave Me (Tablet)

Worth Staying For – Sneaker Wave Magazine

I grew up in a kibbutz in Israel, and I only got to see my parents a few hours a day. I wish they understood how much I needed them around. (Insider)

I’ve Been Comparing Myself to Other Mothers for as Long as I Can Recall (Moms Don’t Have Time to Write)

Far From Forsaken (Litro Magazine)

My Jewish Mom Left Us to Join a Cult. Here’s How We Reconciled. – Kveller

Alone in a Group-excerpt from memoir When She Comes Back (The Start)

I Don’t Want To Cook for My Family and I’m Tired of Feeling Guilty About It (Huffington Post)

I Can’t Shake the Guru Bhagwan (The Rumpus)

I’m Sorry About the Dog (Proximity Magazine)

Not So Glamorous (Hofstra Windmill, p. 184)

One Pot of Soup at a Time (It’s An Itchy Little World)

What You’re Left with When She is Gone (Brain, Child Magazine)

I Want to Heal My Son So Badly (Salon)

Blackberries (Lilith)

When Sheepshead Bay Was Home (Niche Lit)

Short Fiction

House in the Woods (American Literary Review)

Gibbous (Best New Writing 2015 in print and Kindle)

The Plan (Sequestrum)

What February Feels Like (Red Fez)

Rick’s Wax Hands (The Iowa Review Winter 2013/2014)

Poetry

Three Poems by Ronit Plank (Parley Lit)

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