Miri­am Karmel’s writ­ing has appeared in numer­ous pub­li­ca­tions includ­ing Belle­vue Lit­er­ary Review, The Talk­ing Stick, Pearl, Dust & Fire, Pas­sager, Jew­ish Wom­en’s Lit­er­ary Annu­al, and Water~Stone Review. She is the recip­i­ent of Min­neso­ta Month­ly’s 2002 Tama­rack Award, the Kate Braver­man Short Sto­ry Prize, and the Arthur Edel­stein Prize for Short Fic­tion. Her sto­ry ​“The King of Mar­vin Gar­dens” was anthol­o­gized in Milk­weed Edi­tion’s Fic­tion on a Stick . Being Esther is her first novel.