Meet the Instructor

Ronit Plank

Ronit Plank is a creative nonfiction editor at The Citron Review, a writing teacher, and a frequent speaker about memoir craft and why our stories matter. Ronit’s work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Poets & Writers, Writer’s Digest, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, Litro, 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 the National Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her collection, "Home is a Made-Up Place," won the Page Turner Award for Short Stories and the Eludia Award for Fiction.

Ronit, who's also an adjudicator for the Scholastic Writing Awards and hosts the podcast "Let’s Talk Memoir," has worked with adults, teenagers and children since she began teaching in 2002. Ronit earned her MFA in nonfiction at Pacific University and earned certificates in Fiction I, Fiction II and Nonfiction Writing at the University of Washington.