About the Author

Ronna's stories have appeared in American Way, Berkeley Fiction Review, Colorado Review, The Laurel Review, South Dakota Review, Sou'wester, So To Speak, Zone 3, and many other literary journals. Her work has twice been a Finalist in Moment Magazine Short Story Contest, a Finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, and has been broadcast on National Public Radio.  

Her essays have appeared in DAUGHTERS, Ethics in Criminal Justice (Wyndham Hall Press), River Oak Review, Steam Ticket, The Tennessean, and Writers on the Job.

Ronna has been awarded a scholarship in fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and fellowships to the Ragdale Foundation and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.  She is the winner of a fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.

Born in Chicago and educated at the University of Michigan and the University of Denver College of Law, Ronna has been a public defender, had a private law practice, and taught writing at New York University and elsewhere.  She has spoken at Hunter College, Fordham University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence College, and the University of South Florida College of Medicine. 

She is the founding fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, published by the Department of Medicine at New York University.  She is the mother of three children and lives in New York City.