Ronna Wineberg is the author of Artifacts and Other Stories, a collection of stories, winner of the 2004 American Fiction Award in short story fiction; Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life, a collection of stories, which received an Honorable Mention for the Eric Hoffer Book Award; On Bittersweet Place, her first novel, winner of the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition; and a debut collection, Second Language, winner of the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project Literary Competition, and chosen as the runner-up for the Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction. Her stories have appeared in American Way, Colorado Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, South Dakota Review and elsewhere, and been broadcast on National Public Radio. She is the recipient of a scholarship in fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference and residencies to the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Ragdale Foundation. She has been awarded a fellowship in fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is the founding fiction editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, and lives in New York.