Memoir
MASSACRE AND PIZZA – The Jewish Book Council
This piece belongs to a series documenting the experiences of Israeli authors and authors in Israel during the Oct 7 massacres and the 2023 Israel-Gaza War.
“It is critical to understand history not just through the books that will be written later, but also through the first-hand testimonies and real-time accounting of events as they occur.”
ECLIPSED – The Common
Best American Notable Essay 2020
Normally along this straight back road in Idaho lay only quiet flatlands stippled with clumps of yellow grass, but today the prairie was bustling with cars and RVs and people gathered around camping chairs and telescopes. We were all here to see the Great American Eclipse of 2017. . .
THE REVERSE – Best Canadian Essays 2015
Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, The Best Canadian Essays 2015 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.
THE REVERSE – Prism International
Selected for Best Canadian Essays 2015
Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention 2016
Reprinted in The Broadview Anthology of Expository Prose
Reprinted in The New Spice Box: Contemporary Jewish Writing
“Today’s the day,” said Andrea, my diving coach, standing with her thick legs apart, back arched, meaty arms crossed over her large bosom. “Today’s the goddamn day.”
THE RUNNING OF THE BRIDES – Colorado Review
Pushcart Prize Honorable Mention 2015
I walked through the glass doors of Filene’s Basement and into a Hobbesian state of nature. The steel garment racks were empty, many knocked over, and giant piles of wedding gowns dotted the room like bonfires.
TOM'S VILLAGE – Five Points
Guilin is on the Li River and its name means Forest of Fragrant Olive Trees, but we had only seen rivers of traffic and smelled exhaust. The city was small for China—only one and a half million people—but it seemed they were all on the pedestrian street where Yoav and I stood at the halfway point of our honeymoon scouring Lonely Planet for a hostel.
FIG LEAF – Ploughshares
Nominated for a 2011 Pushcart Prize
“Well, you have hair on your vagina. That’s a real buzzkill.”
This was the response my boyfriend, Brian, gave me when some time around our three-month anniversary I got up the courage to address our disappointing sex life.
THE RUNNING OF THE BRIDES & TOM'S VILLAGE — Wallflower Press
Wallflower Press was a small private press established by esteemed author Peter Cameron. The press published limited-edition books featuring the work of Cameron, as well as the work of authors he admired. Each book was edited, designed, and crafted by Cameron in editions limited to ten copies. Series IV, No. 3, featured two personal essays by Jessamyn Hope exploring some cultural rites of modern marriage.