Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage

It was my great honor to edit Manna Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage! I LOVE this joyful, moving collection--you will too!

Here’s what others have to say about Mana Songs: Stories of Jewish Culture & Heritage:

"This celebration of what it means to be Jewish—is also an ode, an homage, and a love song to the complicated and gorgeous texture of thirty-two distinct lives and the beloved people within them: a comic grandmother who bonds through dirty jokes but can’t quite reach her daughter; a brokenhearted college student who boards a train home for Passover because she needs her family more than ever; a 103-year-old WWII veteran who slips his granddaughter cash for a flight to Israel; a mother who loses custody of her daughter and reconciles this unbearable loss through her understanding of Torah and God. And these moments are just the beginning. Again, what a stunning collection."

—Jeannine Ouellette, author of the bestselling Substack, Writing in the Dark

"What a powerful look at what it means to celebrate Jewish joy, to preserve the past, and to forge our Jewish identities in today’s tumultuous world. Here’s to uplifting Jewish stories."

– Zibby Owens, On Being Jewish Now: Reflections of Authors and Advocates

"The collection of essays in Manna Songs celebrates the rich, complex, and deeply meaningful experience of being Jewish today. Each essay presents a unique and accessible perspective on the Jewish experience. As a whole, the collection covers topics ranging from food, history, literature, religious practice, joy, sorrow, and legacy. This beautiful collection showcases an abundance of voices all raised in a common song. Do not miss this gorgeous chorus!"

—Christie Tate, author of NYT bestseller GROUP: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life and B.F.F.: A Memoir of Friendship Lost & Found

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Grieving Hope

I am honored to have edited this moving and heartfelt collection.

Here’s what others have to say about Grieving Hope:

"Memory breaks against the rocky shores of the present in these brief stories of love, loss, and what endures. Grieving Hope is a moving—and vital—record of our times."

–Sue Mell, author of Giving Care

"Grieving Hope is a moving and at times fiery take on death, morality, love, and friendship. These five writers tell their unique stories of loss, love, and understanding with evocative and powerful writing. It is brave work."

–Maureen Aitken, author of The Patron Saint of Lost Girls

"Five exquisite chapbooks make up Grieving Hope. Like the windows of a house, they provide distinct glimpses of the forms grief may take, from yearning’s sweetness and the terrible poignancy of too-late to ache’s persistence, regret, guilt, and blame. And yet, despite loss’s varied guise across these pieces, its aspects invariably ring true. They’re familiar. Perhaps that is why this collection proves so moving. The reader can recognize its ragged feelings: shapeshifting grief, gnawing missing. The hurt that haunts. The lastingness of sorrow."

–Melissa Ostrom, author of Unleaving

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Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness

IndieReader 2023 Best Anthology, International Book Award Finalist—Nonfiction Anthology

I’m thrilled and honored to have edited this gorgeous collection of body essays!

Here’s what others have to say about Awakenings: Stories of Body & Consciousness:

“Awakenings is a celebration of the body, the whole body. These essays astonish with tales of teeth, arms, hips, gallbladders, lungs, toes and hair. And hearts, too … More than anything, this collection celebrates voices. Awakenings is a spectacular revolutionary chorus.”

―Ana Maria Spagna, author of Uplake: Restless Essays of Coming and Goingand Pushed: Miners, a Merchant, and (Maybe) a Massacre

“In Awakenings, forty-nine writers bear brilliant witness to the perils and promise of the human organism ... Journeying through this book, you will feel yourself intrigued and awakened. These writers show us how we can empower our own embodiment.”

―David Groff, author of Live in Suspense

“Awakenings … is an offering, a chorus of voices carefully orchestrated, singing and howling, sometimes in harmony, other moments in acapella or hushed string ensemble. No matter, you’ll stay for the entire concert and find yourself forever altered after.“

–Rebecca Evans, author of Tangled by Blood, a memoir in verse

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