Short Prose

Short Work (Selected)

"Letter to an Aspiring Writer"--Read Her Like an Open Book, July 2026
"Rain Drops & Dirty Sauce: 63-cent Impressions for My Son"--Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, July 2023
"11 Jewish Writers on the Jewish Books that Shaped Them," Curated by Samantha Paige Rosen,Hey Alma, July 2023
"From the Desk of Hilary Zaid: The Necessary Edit, the Necessary Project," University of Nebraska Press Blog, June 14, 2023
"For Queer Parents Like Us, the Demise of Roe Feels All Too Familiar," Mother Jones, June 1, 2022
"All We Have is Where We've Been," Ecotone, Winter 2020, vol. 28, The Love Issue
"Treason's Greetings," Santa Monica Review, Spring 2017
"For Non-Speakers of the Mother Tongue," now available Tahoma Literary Review, Winter 2016
"My Triple X Valentine's at the Far Point Senior Villas"--Amazon, Day One, Fall 2016. Now available as a Kindle Single.
"The Dark Between the Stars," winner of the BLOOM Literary Magazine 2016 Chapbook Prize in Fiction, Judge Lucy Jane Bledsoe
"On the Tarmac at the Amelia Earhart International Airport," CALYX, Vol. 28:3
"And the Wisdom to Know the Difference," The Shade Mountain Press anthology, The Female Complaint Reprinted in Referential.
"Postcards from the Museum of Us," Southwest Review (100.1, winter 2015)
"Even in Dreams, She Leaves Me Every Time," Lilith Magazine (winter 2014); reprinted in The Utne Reader, summer 2014