ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Ronna's stories have appeared in Berkeley Fiction Review, Colorado Review, South Dakota Review, So To Speak, and other literary journals. They have been broadcast on National Public Radio.  She has received a fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the John Atherton Scholarship in Fiction at Bread Loaf, and fellowships to the Ragdale Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Ronna was a Finalist for the Willa Cather Fiction Prize, for SECOND LANGUAGE.  She has also been a Finalist in Moment Magazine's Short Story Contest. 

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. 

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