Profile

Ms. Wisenbergwon the 2022 Juniper Prize in nonfiction for The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home, to be published March 31, 2023, by the University of Massachusetts Press. She has also published two prose collections, The Sweetheart Is In, and Holocaust Girls: History, Memory, & Other Obsessions, and the nonfiction chronicle The Adventures of Cancer Bitch. She was a feature writer for the Miami Herald and has published prose and poetry in The New Yorker, Ploughshares, Narrative, the Michigan Quarterly Review and many other places. She edits Another Chicago Magazine. She's received a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the Illinois Arts Council, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the National Endowment for the Humanities.