Nominated in 2024 both for Best American Essay and for the Pushcart Prize. Find resilience, rebuilding, faith, hope, love, birds, wit, grit, beauty, brain, stuff that's off-the-bell curve, aphasia, amnesia, amnesic memoir. Proudly niche since 2006.
Judith Hannah Weiss began writing at Time Magazine, freelanced for 25 years, and was then hit by a truck. Post-truck, her work has been on NBC News and The Washington Post. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essay.
Something odd will cross my mind, or a memory will catch me off guard, or my monkey mind will swing from the ceiling fan, or a tiny ant will crawl up the bookcase next to my chair. Then I get curious and curiosity is the first step in an unknown direction
After the MFA and the launch of a successful writing career, life happened. I was interrupted. When my husband died, grief opened my heart. Writing and grieving are acts of love. I'm writing again. Join me, and join the community!
I grew up in a car. On the road with Mama and her carload of kids. It took everything I had to leave. Leaving made me who I am.
"Just to spite the world, donโt cry! Just to spite the world, only laugh, only laugh!" - Sholom Aleichem. Amen, Brother.
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