Perle Besserman

Perle Besserman is the recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and is the writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Artist’s Colony in Jerusalem. She has published stories in literary magazines like The Southern Humanities Review, The Nebraska Review, Hurricane Alice, Other Voices, Crab Creek Review, and The Transatlantic Review. She is the author of an autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage (Houghton Mifflin), and several highly praised books of creative nonfiction, the most recent of which is A New Zen for Women (Palgrave). (updated 4/2008)

AGNI has published the following work by Perle Besserman:

•The Sackman Street Boys
•The Wrong Stop