Essays
“My Grandfather’s Stories: From the Shtetl to Chicago” — recommended reading list based on my research for Laughing in Yiddish, published by the Jewish Book Council (March 31, 2025)
“Sheltering-in-Place: Ima’s Point of View” — essay published in Oy!Chicago
“When ‘Great Gatsby’s Meyer Wolfsheim is the Only Jewish Character You Know,” published in The Forward (July 11, 2016)
“American Jewish Women Poets,” published as a four-part series in Green Mountains Review (October – November 2013):
Interviews
A Poetic Dialogue: Cat Dixon and Jamie Wendt discuss their new poetry collections — The Good Life Review
The Good Life Review Podcast Episode 1.6: Jamie Wendt
Interview: Jamie Wendt with Midwestern Gothic (2018)
“Fairy-Tale Logic: A Conversation with Alice Hoffman” — Jewish Book Council
Claude and Marcel: A Conversation with Rupert Thomson — Jewish Book Council
Interview with Fredric Price, from Fig Tree Books
Book Reviews
Stumbling Blocks by Jennifer Krebs
The Deep Blue of Neptune by Terry Belew
Every Body Beloved: A Jewish Embrace of Fatness by Minna Bromberg
The End is the Beginning: A Personal History of My Mother by Jill Bialosky
Shiva: Poems of October 7 edited by Rachel Korazim, Michael Bohnen, and Heather Silverman
Rimonim: Ritual Poetry of Jewish Liberation by Aurora Levins Morales
The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown
The Animal is Chemical: Poems by Hadara Bar-Nadav
Displaced Persons: Stories by Joan Leegant
In Sickness and in Health & Yom Kippur in a Gym: two novellas by Nora Gold
The Boy with the Star Tattoo by Talia Carner
Amusing the Angels by Stewart Florsheim
In Other Lifetimes, All I’ve Lost Comes Back to Me: Stories by Courtney Sender
As I Said: A Dissent by Abby Minor
Longing: Poems of a Life by Merle Feld
Crow Funeral by Kate Hanson Foster
The Daughter of Auschwitz by Tova Friedman
Departure Stories: Betty Crocker Made Matzo Balls (and other lies) by Elisa Bernick
Out of Nowhere by Susan Comninos
The Discarded Life by Adam Kirsch
Atomic Anna by Rachel Barenbaum
I Had a Brother Once: A Memoir, A Poem by Adam Mansbach
Asylum: a personal, historical, natural inquiry in 103 lyric sections by Jill Bialosky
The Lamps of History by Michael Sandler
I Wish My Father by Leslea Newman
Full and Plum-Colored Velvet by Anne Graue
Spilt Milk by Courtney Zoffness
The Minor Virtues by Lynn Levin
Don’t Touch the Bones by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach
Roundabout: Poems by Amy M. Clark
The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman
Concerning the Holy Ghost’s Interpretation of J. Crew Catalogues by Elizabeth A. I. Powell
Never Anyone But You by Rupert Thomson
Motherhood Reimagined: When Becoming a Mother Doesn’t Go as Planned by Sarah Kowalski
Unbound: Finding Freedom from Unrealistic Expectations of Motherhood by Jamie Sumner
The Book of Norman: A Novel by Allan Appel
Unspeakable Things by Kathleen Spivak
In the Unlikely Event by Judy Blume
Esther: A Novel by Rebecca Kanner
Prayers for the Living by Alan Cheuse
My Salinger Year by Joanna Rakoff
On Bittersweet Place by Ronna Wineberg
Jamie Wendt 