Meet the Instructor

Ronit Plank

Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and elsewhere and has earned Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and multiple Pushcart Prize nominations. Her memoir, “When She Comes Back,” is a finalist in the Housatonic Awards and the National Indie Excellence Awards. Named a Book Riot Best True Crime Book of 2021; Kirkus Reviews calls Plank’s memoir an “intimate, intuitive, emotionally vivid family account that finds hope in reconciliation.” Plank’s short story collection, “Home is a Made-Up Place,” won Hidden River Arts’ Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Fiction.

Plank teaches memoir writing at programs and conferences domestically and abroad. She’s also creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review, hosts the “Let’s Talk Memoir” podcast, and shares craft advice in her Substack newsletter, Let’s Talk Memoir.