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Beth Kissileff

Beth Kissileff
Beth Kissileff is co-editor of the volume Bound in the Bond of Life: Pittsburgh Writers Reflect on the Tree of Life Tragedy and author of the novel Questioning Return.  Her writing has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Michigan Quarterly Review, Tablet, and Religion News Service among others and  she has received writing residencies from the Corporation of Yaddo, the Ragdale Foundation, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and the Collegeville Institute.  She is at work on linked short stories about the impact of abusive teachers on all of their students, based on her experiences at the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, NY.


Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

From Yaa Gyasi to Joan Silber Beth Kissileff Finds Consolation in Reading
July 23, 2021  By Beth Kissileff
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