Ronna Wineberg
Biography

Ronna Wineberg is an award-winning author of four books, including her newest one, Artifacts
and Other Stories, a collection of short stories.
Her latest book was long-listed for the Shelf Unbound Best Indie Book Competition and was a
finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. Over the past three decades, her writings have received
recognition that incudes being a finalist for Bread Loaf Writers Conference Fellowship, a finalist
for Moment Magazine Short Fiction Contest, winner of New River’s Press Many Voices Project
Literary Competition, finalist of Willa Cather Prize in Fiction, and winner of Denver Women’s
Press Club Story Contest.
She is the founding fiction editor of Bellevue Literary Review, where she served 21 years as its
senior fiction editor, and now is their contributing fiction editor. The publication is credited with
publishing the early works of Celeste Ng, who went on to become a New York Times best-selling
author. Wineberg has also served as the president of Tennessee Writers Alliance and was a
member of the program committee for Southern Festival of Books.
Wineberg was awarded a prestigious Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for
the Arts, Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Fellowship from Ragdale
Foundation, and Scholar in Fiction from the Bread Loaf Writers Conference.
Her work has appeared in numerous literary magazines, including Michigan Quarterly Review,
Berkeley Fiction Review, Writers Forum, The South Dakota Review, American Way, Colorado
Review, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual, The Tennessean, and Eureka Literary Magazine.
Wineberg’s earlier books include On Bittersweet Place, Nine Facts That Can Change Your Life,
and Second Language. She was a regular contributor to the blog of Psychology Today and has
appeared on National Public Radio KDSU and WGN Radio in Chicago.
Wineberg is a dynamic guest-speaker and has presented at the AWP Conference, Council of
Literary Magazines and Presses, PEN and BRUSH Writing Conference, NYU Summer Intensive
Writing Program, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sarah Lawrence College, Fordham
University, and University of South Florida College of Medicine.
She taught a total of five years, including creative writing at University School of Nashville
Evening Classes for Adults, and as an Adjunct Professor in English at New York University.
Wineberg was a legal aide, public defender, and a lawyer in private practice earlier in her career.
Wineberg is a member of PEN and Authors Guild. She was a member of the National Arts club
in New York for over a decade. She earned a JD from University of Denver College of Law and
a BA with distinction from the University of Michigan. She has also completed several master

fiction classes at the 92 nd St Y. She has lived in Nashville and Denver, and resides in New York
City. For more information, please consult: www.ronnawineberg.com.

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