Ronit Plank

Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose writing has earned Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominations and has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Writer’s Digest, Hippocampus 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 Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards and was one of Book Riot’s 2021 Best New True Crime Books, and her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and hosts and produces the podcast Let’s Talk Memoir featuring interviews with memoirists and writing teachers about memoir craft and the writing life. For more about Ronit and a complete list of work visit: https://ronitplank.com/.