Sandi Wisenberg's guest appearances

Sandi Wisenberg

ArtScene with Erika Funke

Let’s Talk Memoir

OwlTail

Sandi Wisenberg joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding home, the structure our books need, her career as a journalist, negotiating a legacy of woman shame and Jewish shame, writing what you have to, and her new collection of memoiristic essays, The Wandering Womb.   Also in this episode: -looking for home -not wrapping our writing up too neatly -a closer look at “the wandering Jew” trope   Further reading about The Wandering Jew trope from rootsmetals.com: https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/the-wandering-jew-trope   Books mentioned in this episode: The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffin Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Books by Phillip Lopate   S.L. Wisenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, winner of the Juniper Prize in creative nonfiction. It will be published March 31, 2023, by the University of Massachusetts Press. She's also the author of a short-story collection, The Sweetheart Is In; an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, &amp; Other Obsessions; and a nonfiction chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. She is a fourth-generation native Texan who lives in Chicago and edits Another Chicago Magazine. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She was a feature writer for the Miami Herald and has published prose and poetry in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Narrative, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, and many other places. Her anthologized work is in Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, Creating Nonfiction: A Guide and Anthology, Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, Life is Short--Art is Shorter, and a number of other books. For ten years she was co-director of Northwestern's then-MA/MFA in Creative Writing program and was a graduate faculty recipient of a Distinguished Teacher Award. She has been the literary editor of TriQuarterly, the creative nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine. and is now the editor of ACM. She's received a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. She was the Coal Royalty Chair for a semester at the University of Alabama, teaching in the MFA program. Wisenberg has read her work and lectured at many universities and colleges, including Brown, Creighton, Minnesota State, Texas A&amp;M, University of Tampa, Ripon, and Lafayette. Besides Northwestern, she has taught at DePaul, Roosevelt, Western Michigan, North Park University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is working on a collection of short stories that are pre- and post-Holocaust and have a connection to old movies and Houston. One of these was runner-up in Narrative Magazine's Fall 2021 contest, and another won Narrative's Spring 22 contest.    Connect with Sandi: https://www.facebook.com/sandi.wisenberg Sandi Wisenberg @SLWisenberg slwisenberg.com Sandi’s first three books: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=wisenberg Sandi’s forthcoming book:  https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781625347350 or Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wandering-womb-s-l-wisenberg/1142599024?ean=9781625347350 -- Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book.   More about Ronit: https://ronitplank.com Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: https://bit.ly/33nyTKd Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: https://ronitplank.com/book/ More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE, a short story collection: https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/    Connect with Ronit: https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/ https://twitter.com/RonitPlank https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank   Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

Sandi Wisenberg joins Let’s Talk Memoir for a conversation about finding home, the structure our books need, her career as a journalist, negotiating a legacy of woman shame and Jewish shame, writing what you have to, and her new collection of memoiristic essays, The Wandering Womb. Also in this episode: -looking for home -not wrapping our writing up too neatly -a closer look at “the wandering Jew” trope Further reading about The Wandering Jew trope from <a href="http://rootsmetals.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rootsmetals.com</a>: <a href="https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/the-wandering-jew-trope" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.rootsmetals.com/blogs/news/the-wandering-jew-trope</a> Books mentioned in this episode: The Berlin Stories by Christopher Isherwood The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy A Chorus of Stones by Susan Griffin Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her by Susan Griffin Books by Phillip Lopate S.L. Wisenberg is the author of the forthcoming book, The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, winner of the Juniper Prize in creative nonfiction. It will be published March 31, 2023, by the University of Massachusetts Press. She's also the author of a short-story collection, The Sweetheart Is In; an essay collection, Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, &amp; Other Obsessions; and a nonfiction chronicle, The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. She is a fourth-generation native Texan who lives in Chicago and edits Another Chicago Magazine. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop and a BSJ from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She was a feature writer for the Miami Herald and has published prose and poetry in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Narrative, Prairie Schooner, New England Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, and many other places. Her anthologized work is in Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction, Creating Nonfiction: A Guide and Anthology, Imaginative Writing: The Elements of Craft, Life is Short--Art is Shorter, and a number of other books. For ten years she was co-director of Northwestern's then-MA/MFA in Creative Writing program and was a graduate faculty recipient of a Distinguished Teacher Award. She has been the literary editor of TriQuarterly, the creative nonfiction editor of Another Chicago Magazine. and is now the editor of ACM. She's received a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. She was the Coal Royalty Chair for a semester at the University of Alabama, teaching in the MFA program. Wisenberg has read her work and lectured at many universities and colleges, including Brown, Creighton, Minnesota State, Texas A&amp;M, University of Tampa, Ripon, and Lafayette. Besides Northwestern, she has taught at DePaul, Roosevelt, Western Michigan, North Park University, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is working on a collection of short stories that are pre- and post-Holocaust and have a connection to old movies and Houston. One of these was runner-up in Narrative Magazine's Fall 2021 contest, and another won Narrative's Spring 22 contest.  Connect with Sandi: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/sandi.wisenberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/sandi.wisenberg</a> Sandi Wisenberg @SLWisenberg <a href="http://slwisenberg.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">slwisenberg.com</a> Sandi’s first three books: <a href="https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=wisenberg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=wisenberg</a> Sandi’s forthcoming book:  <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781625347350" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781625347350</a> or Barnes and Noble: <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wandering-womb-s-l-wisenberg/1142599024?ean=9781625347350" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-wandering-womb-s-l-wisenberg/1142599024?ean=9781625347350</a> -- Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has been featured in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Hippocampus, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. Her memoir WHEN SHE COMES BACK about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named a 2021 Best True Crime Book by Book Riot and was a Finalist in the National Indie Excellence Awards, the Housatonic Book Awards, and the Book of the Year Awards. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes, the Best of the Net, and the Best Microfiction Anthology, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award. She is creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review and lives in Seattle with her family where she is working on her next book. More about Ronit: <a href="https://ronitplank.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ronitplank.com</a> Sign up for monthly podcast and writing updates: <a href="https://bit.ly/33nyTKd" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://bit.ly/33nyTKd</a> Follow on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/</a> More about WHEN SHE COMES BACK, a memoir: <a href="https://ronitplank.com/book/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ronitplank.com/book/</a> More about HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE, a short story collection: <a href="https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ronitplank.com/home-is-a-made-up-place/</a> Connect with Ronit: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/ronitplank/</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/RonitPlank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/RonitPlank</a> <a href="https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/RonitPlank</a> Background photo: Canva Headshot photo credit: Sarah Anne Photography Theme music: Isaac Joel, Dead Moll’s Fingers

Writing What You Have To featuring Sandi Wisenberg

Joe Kraus

S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg, award-winning author, editor &amp; teacher, and Dr. Joe Kraus, Chair of the Department of English &amp; Theatre at the University of Scranton, speaking about Ms. Wisenberg's latest collection,  "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of a Home" to be issued on March 31, 2023 by Umass Press. The conversation took place in connection with an author event &amp; reading featuring Sandi Wisenberg on Wednesday, March 22 at 6 pm in Pern Auditorium on the U of S campus.  Admission is free and open to the public.  www.scranton.edu/

S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg, award-winning author, editor &amp; teacher, and Dr. Joe Kraus, Chair of the Department of English &amp; Theatre at the University of Scranton, speaking about Ms. Wisenberg's latest collection, "The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of a Home" to be issued on March 31, 2023 by Umass Press. The conversation took place in connection with an author event &amp; reading featuring Sandi Wisenberg on Wednesday, March 22 at 6 pm in Pern Auditorium on the U of S campus. Admission is free and open to the public. <a href="http://www.scranton.edu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.scranton.edu/</a>