Besserman, Perle

Recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and past writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim Artist Colony in Jerusalem, Pushcart Prize nominee Perle Besserman was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the "clarity and feeling for mystic lore" of her writing and by Publisher's Weekly for its "wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart." Her autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage, was published by Houghton Mifflin, and her electronic book story collection, Marriage and Other Travesties of Love, by Cantarabooks. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals