Elissa Altman

My blogs

About me

Gender Female
Occupation Author, editor, teacher
Location Somewhere in, New England, United States
Introduction Elissa Altman is author of the critically-acclaimed memoir, Motherland; Treyf; and Poor Man's Feast, and the James Beard Award-winning narrative blog of the same name. Her work has been featured in O: The Oprah Magazine, Tin House, The NY Times, On Being, Narrative, and the Washington Post, where her column, Feeding My Mother, ran for a year. She was a finalist for the Frank McCourt Memoir Prize, and speaks widely on NPR and beyond.