S.L. Wisenberg

Fiction Writer

Chicago, IL
Illinois US
Email: 
slwisenberg@sbcglobal.net
Website: 
slwisenberg.blogspot.com

Author's Bio

Voice is important to me. Getting to the core of truth (of feeling, of conflict) is important. Jokes are important and so are new ways of looking at things.

Publications & Prizes

Anthologies:
Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Nonfiction (Norton, 2005)
,
Poetry from Sojourner (University of Illinois Press, 2003)
,
What Are You Looking At? (Harcourt, 2003)
,
Neurotica: Jewish Writers on Sex (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)
,
Pushcart Prize XXI (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997)
,
Feminism 3 (Westview Press, 1996)
,
Nice Jewish Girls (Plume, 1996)
Books:
The Adventures of Cancer Bitch (University of Iowa Press, 2009)
,
Holocaust Girls: History, Memory & Other Obsessions (University of Nebraska Press, 2002)
,
The Sweetheart Is In (Northwestern University Press, 2001)
Journals:
Another Chicago Magazine
,
Calyx, A Journal of Art and Literature by Women
,
Crab Orchard Review
,
Kenyon Review
,
New England Review
,
North American Review
,
Ploughshares
,
The New Yorker
,
Third Coast
,
Tikkun
,
TriQuarterly
,
Wigwag
,
Witness

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
"In the House Un-American" by Benjamin Hollander

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
Jewish
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
Houston, TX
Texas
Raised in: 
Houston, TX
Texas
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Last update: Nov 04, 2017