Marsha Lee Berkman

Fiction Writer

Redwood City, CA

California US

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Author's Bio

Recently taught "The Art of Memoir, " a six-week workshop in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Recent publications: "Words That Transformed the World," in Fightin' Words: 25 Years of Provocative Poetry and Prose From The Blue Collar Pen." Pen Oakland and Heyday, 2014,
"Grisha," in Jewish Women's Literary Annual, Volume 11.

Publications & Prizes

Books:

Here I Am: Contemporary Jewish Stories From Around The World (Jewish Publication Society, 1998)

Mothers (Northpoint Press, 1996)

The Schocken Book of Contemporary Jewish Fiction (Schocken Press, 1992)

Journals:

Chicago Quarterly Review

Confluence

Entropy

Jewish Women's Literary Annual

Other Voices

Real

riverSedge

Sifrut Review

The Long Story

Prizes won:

PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for the Highest Standards of Non-Mainstream
Literature for Contemporary Jewish Stories Around the World

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now:

History as an Art of Memory by Patrick H. Hutton, A Poet's Glossary by Edward Hirsch, Can't and Won't by Lydia Davis, Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast, Being For Myself Alone: Origins of Jewish Aurobiography by Marcus Moseley

More Information

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

Born in:

Bridgeport

Raised in:

Midwest

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Last update: Jan 10, 2016