The unpublished manuscript of my novel Shayna was the 2019 winner of the Hackney Literary Award for excellence in fiction at the national level. The novel is currently represented by Marly Rusoff and Associates, Inc. and has been submitted for publishing consideration.
Shayna opens in the midst of a vicious pogrom in the Ukraine in 1919. Seventeen year old Shayna, already orphaned by anti-Semitic violence, survives and rescues her four year old nephew after the brutal murder of his family.
Awarded 1st Place for Literary Fiction and Romance Fiction 2013 Midwest Independent Publishers.
A funny and touching story of personal discovery, Turtle Season follows the deep inner journey of a woman at midlife as she chooses hope over despair and seeks a future that is true to her authentic self.