Yona Zeldis McDonough
Melodie Winawer talks with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about weaving together the seemingly disparate strands of her life into one highly original and engaging story.
The Past is Still With Us: Melodie Winawer Q&A
Tag: fiction
There is Still Time!
Lilith Staff
The deadline for Lilith’s Annual Fiction Contest has been extended until January 31st!
A Novel Takes on the Thorny World of Surrogacy
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Nuances and potential landmines arise with such a radically new way to bring children into the world.
Rhiannon McGavin on Poems, Dreams, and Tkhines
Alexa Hulse
Los Angeles-based poet Rhiannon McGavin talks to Lilth about her sophomore collection of poetry, Grocery List Poems.
Louise Fein on The Hidden Child: Eugenics, Epilepsy, and Women’s Roles
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The new novel, “The Hidden Child”, set in Britain in the years between the two world wars, exposes—and challenges— pernicious ideas about epilepsy and sheds a more benevolent light on the disorder.
More on the “Jewish Jane Austen”
Lilith staff
A nearly-forgotten. novel of forbidden interfaith love.
Young, Jewish and Bisexual in Fiction
Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Jodi Rosenfeld chats with Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about her debut novel, Closer to Fine.
Jane Lazarre on How This Age of Crisis Affects Our Inner Worlds
Yona Zeldis McDonough
The so called outside world has invaded deeply and permanently the inside world, even for some of the most privileged.
Hope Valley: A Novel Approach to Israeli and Palestinian Women’s Lives
By Yona Zeldis McDonough
Author Haviva Ner-David talks to Fiction Editor Yona Zeldis McDonough about how she views this age-old conflict and her passionate commitment to ending it.
Jennifer Anne Moses on Jewish Storytelling
By Yona Zeldis McDonough
“As children, all four of us attended a private day school modeled on the English public school, where we wore uniforms, danced around the Maypole, recited the Lord’s Prayer, and belted out the greatest hits of the Anglo-Saxon playbook…”