Published Writers
Congratulations to all the members of the Sweet Lab community who have published essays, short stories, novels, and memoirs, recorded radio pieces, and written and performed monologues and plays that they have workshopped with us. It is thrilling to help writers publish and perform their work.
Elizabeth Anderson, The Party (Making crab dip in college and yearning for Mom)
Ilene Goldman Tomato Soup for the Soul (Eating tomato soup with baby in hospital)
Lisa Greene, Where’s My Knife? (Mom with health issues wants to make lemon curd)
Leslie Dannin Rosenthal, Entertaining Fish (Mom’s recipe for dishwasher salmon)
Sweet Lab’s Edits
Check out these fabulous published authors we’ve had the pleasure of working with. Read what they have to say about working with Laura as an editor.
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Coach Yourself! Increase Awareness, Change Behavior and Thrive
ANTONIA BOWRING
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The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother
JUDITH RABINOR
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As Long as It’s Perfect: A Novel
LISA TOGNOLA
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Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling
BETH RAYMER
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Not Yours to Keep: A Novel
ZELLY RUSKIN
Sweet Lab’s Edits
Check out these fabulous published authors we’ve had the pleasure of working with. Read what they have to say about working with Laura as an editor.
E.B. Axelrod
Lolly(Blue Lake Review)
Break Fast(Split Lip Magazine)
Strangers (East of the Web)
Elizabeth Burk
What We Carry With Us(Pithead Chapel)
Ruth Carmel
My Big Fat Orthodox Thanksgiving(Alimentum)
Why I Write About My Family (TalkingWriting.com)
Misdirection(TalkingWriting.com)
Too Much Information( Ducts.org)
Writing Actually is Hard Work, Which is Fine(Brevity)
You are the Hero of This Tale(Literary Mama)
Hilda Chazanovitz
The Loving Complex Relationship I Had With My Mother, a Holocaust Survivor(The Forward)
Bringing Passover back to the town where the Nazis killed our relatives(The Forward)
The Understanding(The Moth)
Jennifer Dorr
Nice Stuff(Herstry)
What My Mother Doesn’t Know(On Being Jewish Now)
Susan Berger Ellman
The Royalty of Brooklyn(HerStry)
Elizabeth Emrey
Alumni Love Stories(USFCA)
Mother Knows Best(2nd prize winner, The Girlfriend’s 2023 Mother’s Day Contest)
Kristen Fealy The East Hampton Star)
Valerie Feigen
In Memoriam, My Breasts(HerStry)
Arthur Flug
Riding the QM6(The New York Times)
Michelle Friedman
A Last Act of Intimate Kindness(The New York Times)
Friedman’s memoir, Divine Corners: In the Shadow of the Holocaust on a Catskills Chicken Farm, will be published on May 1, 2026 by Amsterdam Publishers.
Ilene S. Goldman
My Father’s Tallit(Reform Judaism)
Gray Hairs and Growing Pains(Grande Dame Literary)
Caution: Memories in the Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear(HerStry)
Tomato Soup for the Soul(Eat, Darling, Eat)
A Sweet Homecoming (JUF.Org)
Adele Aron Greenspun
The Uses of Sorrow(Grande Dame Literary)
The Uses of Sorrow(Snapdragon Journal)
But! I Didn’t Hear You (Grande Dame Literary)
Regular A(Herstry)
The Best Mother’s Day Ever(Flora Fiction)
Lisa S. Greene,
Where’s My Knife? (Eat, Darling, Eat), Postcard Time Machine (Penn Gazette) Purim Costume Redux (Jewish Chicago), Making a Jewish Ritual for My Divorce
Grania Gurievitch
Sarah Gundle
Therapeutic Love(Square Wheel Press)
What I Gained From an Awkard Failed Marriage Proposal(Scary Mommy)
Sharon Was My First Patient and I’m Heartbroken That She’s Gone(Scary Mommy)
A Stranger’s Gift to Me in the Phoenix Airport(Motherwell)
Mahjong Saved My Life(The Forward)
Judith Katz
Performed her story, "The Seeker," through Generation Women at Caveat Theater at the Spark Theater Festival
Melanie Hoopes
Wrote and directed the play,Six Feet,at River Arts.
Jeff Lawenda
A Fish Tale(Dillydoun Review)
Kate Levin
My Favorite Place(The Library Love Letter)
The Library Love Letter Presents; Food Fight(Heart Balm)
Life Lessons (Marathon Lit Review)
The Ashes (Smoky Blue Literary and Arts Magazine)
Of Mice and Mom(The Bookends Review)
Beware the Pig: Confessions of a Good (Enough) Mother(Rockvale Review)
In Flight Emergency(Bright Flash Literary Review)
How Reading For a Lit Mag Improved My Writing (Lit Mag News)
Publishing Diaries: Kate Levin (Lit Mag Lounge)
My Guilty Reading Pleasure: Climb Every Mountain (Brevity Blog)
Joan Lipton
Constructing Trauma’s Narrative in the Later Years: Aging and the Life Review(Contemporary Psychoanalysis)
Elissa Caterfino Mandel
A Wave from the Window (The Forward)
Our Passover: Why this night is different from all others(The Forward)
How the Pandemic Turned Me Into Something I’m Not(Disrupt Aging)
My Catholic Man Wanted Me to Marry a Jewish Man When He Died,(Kveller)
Two Jewish Weddings and an Identity Crisis (Kveller)
When My Sons Lost Their Dad Way Too Young, My Own Father Stepped In(Kveller)
Bulls and Bears (Pennsylvania Gazette)
Kahdeidra Monet Martin
Forever Three(Transition)
Randi Mazzella
Rewriting Middle Age(Disrupt Aging)
Why Girls’ Trips Will Make You a Better Mom(The Girlfriend)
To the Woman Who Marries My Son: I'm Sorry and You're Welcome(The Fine Line)
The Music of My Youth Takes Me Back(The Fine Line)
Rediscovering Shabbat(Tablet Magazine)
The Six Benefits of Lemons That May Surprise You; About Face: Five Products Your Skin Needs Now;Ten Podcasts Women Should Tune Into Now; Should You Worry If You Have an Old Fashioned Marriage?; Do You Need an Air Fryer?(The Girlfriend), Saying Goodbye to My Last Kid as He Heads Off to College (The Girlfriend)
Jody Miller
Miller contributed a chapter about optimism to How We Flourish.
Melissa Mizel
Just Too Bad(Medium)
What to Wear to Become a Jewish Mother-in-Law?(The Forward)
Ileana Nachescu
The Traveling Tomato(Ducts.org)
Debbie Nathan
We’ll Be Here All Night(This American Life)
Tamar Paluch, Neutrality is Not an Option After Bondi (Australian Financial Review), Ruptured: Jewish Women in Australia Reflect on Life Post-October 7(Lamm Jewish Library of America); What the Stones Remember (Judith Magazine)
Maxine Paul performed a piece about serial killers Artie Shawcross and David Berkowitz at the Moth
Judith Ruskay Rabinor PhD, The Girl in the Red Boots: Making Peace with My Mother(SheWrites Press), Mother Knows Best (The Girlfriend’s 2023 Mother’s Day Contest)
Beth Raymer,Lay the Favorite: A Memoir of Gambling(also made into a motion picture), Fireworks Every Night (novel, Random House)
Janet Rich, Angels All Around, Chicken Soup for the Soul
Leslie Dannin Rosenthal
That Cake(Grande Dame Literary)
This Daily Practice Became an Unexpected Comfort During Coronavirus(Kveller)
That Time My Jewish Grandma Befriended Cassius Clay in Miami (Kveller)
Snack Plate(Grande Dame Literary)
Entertaining Fish(Eat, Darling, Eat)
Greater MetroWest at the Table
Karen Satran
Nights(The Yale Review)
The Scent of Lime Trees(The New Yorker)
Holly Shaw
COVID Sheds Light on the Painful Sting of Poverty (NJ.com)
Big Lessons from Montclair Little League(Montclair Local)
Sharon Silver
When Covering Up Becomes Trendy(Tablet Magazine)
Judy Silvan
Bottom-Up Gratitude: An AEDP Approach(Psychotherapy Networker)
Lisa Tognola
Feeling Naked and Exposed on Yom Kippur(Salon.com)
Why I Let My Daughter Get a Nose Job(Kveller)
As Long As It’s Perfect (novel, SheWrites Press)
Barbara Trommer
A Widow’s Bed(Ducts.org)
Kitchen Ballet(Still Point Arts Quarterly)
Jo Varnish
My Son and I Visited a Medium, and She Gave Us a Gift We Never Saw Coming(Huffington Post)
The Benefits of a DIY Writing Retreat(Brevity)
Old Teachers Never Die(Anti Heroin Chic)
Sanctuary(OkayDonkeyMag.com)
Raw Meat(X-R-A-Y.com)
Dog(Ellipsiszine.com)
Unblessed(Manquemagazine.com)
Candling(The Coachella Review)
The Opposite of aWorm(Rejection Letters)
Halloween Like No Other(The Girlfriend)
Laura Weinstein
Government policies that (unlike Trump’s) will actually produce more babies(Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Laura Weiss
Down and Out City (Bright Flash Literary Review)
Healthy Smiles is the Place to Go(Five on the Fifth)
Nora Wong
Loving My Son, After His Death(The New York Times)
Lucinda Ziesing
What You Love May Not Last But It’s Worth Fighting for Anyway(Penobscot Bay Pilot)