This week’s episode will be a fast favorite because guest Ronit Plank is speaking the language of a memoir advocate. We get right to the heart of so many things that make memoir special and important. Ronit speaks about coming to memoir kicking and screaming, and how it opened her up, and how memoir makes us all more empathetic. A true memoir advocate, with her own popular memoir podcast, Let’s Talk Memoir, Ronit is a kindred spirit in this space. She’s also a new contributor to the Memoir Nation Community with her quarterly group, Mining the Depths, and she’s delightful to listen to. Let’s talk memoir, let’s talk advocacy—here on this week’s Memoir Nation.

Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, and editor whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, Poets & Writers, The Rumpus, Salon, Hippocampus, The New York Times, and elsewhere. Her memoir, When She Comes Back, was named a Book Riot Best True Crime Book, and won a 2022 Book Excellence Award and other indie awards. Ronit is also the author of the award-winning short story collection Home is a Made-Up Place and her work has been widely anthologized. She teaches memoir for the University of Washington’s Continuum Program, and she’s host of the podcast Let’s Talk Memoir and writes the Substack Let’s Talk Memoir. 

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