Ronna Wineberg, author of
Artifacts and Other Stories When I was eight-years-old I wanted to be a writer or an artist. I created a newspaper at home. All the news was made up, and also the books, movies, and reviews. I handprinted the articles and drew illustrations. In college, I decided writing and art weren’t practical. So I went to law school and became a lawyer and public defender. I was always writing, though. I wrote while I waited for a case to be called in court. I wrote when my children were young, when it was difficult to find time to write. We lived in Denver then, and I went to a writing conference for the first time. The instructor said my poems were like stories. She suggested I take a fiction writing class at the University of Denver. “You’ll grow faster as a writer that way,” she told me.
new stories, included older ones, and then of love in my writing and also explore desire, revised all the stories. longing, marriage, betrayal, divorce, aging, illness, and loss; I try to understand their Who are the people that influenced you effect on our emotions and choices. most, and who would you like to thank: The persons in my life who most influenced Artifacts and Other Stories is my fourth book me: My parents, their love of art, music, of fiction. I’m honored that I was awarded and education. David Milofsky taught me a fellowship in fiction from the New York about the writer’s life and has given me Foundation for the Arts, a scholarship in invaluable insights about my work. My aunts, fiction to the Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Belle Lippman and Ruth Davis, discussed and residencies to the Ragdale Foundation literature and life with me. Alice Munro and and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. her masterful short stories inspire me. Her And I am grateful to be the founding fiction stories are honest, filled with emotion, and editor of the Bellevue Literary Review. My are like miniature novels. next book is a novel about a public defender, an insanity case, and how law and psychiatry I want to thank friends and colleagues who play out in the courtroom. have encouraged my writing, especially David Milofsky, Dallas Hudgens, Lauren Cerand, Donna Baier Stein, Danielle Ofri, Steven Bauer, Jules Hucke, and Margot Livesey. Many thanks to Walter Cummins for publishing Artifacts and Other Stories. I’m grateful to my wonderful children, Daniel, Genia, and Simone, for their patience as I sat in the study at home, day after day, year after year, trying to become a writer. Thank you to the Independent Press Award for recognizing my work and choosing Artifacts and Other Stories as a Distinguished Favorite.
A professor allowed me to sit in writing classes as a special student, one class a semester. The more I wrote and learned about fiction, the more I wanted to pursue it. Writing fiction became part of my daily existence. I hoped to enroll in the MFA program, but landed up joining a writers group and began to submit my work. An editor of a literary journal eventually accepted a short story of mine, and I was thrilled. I felt that I’d fulfilled a childhood wish and pleasure. Artifacts and Other Stories is my pandemic project. During the pandemic, I compiled the book. I wrote ON WRITING: I explore the joys and limitations
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