Author: Yona Zeldis McDonough

Jennifer Rosner on the Price of Being Saved

Sometimes the price of being saved is much higher than we could ever expect or know—and Jewish children hidden during the Holocaust found that out the hard way. 

Joan Roth’s Photography, Onscreen

Lilith talks to Melanie Roth Gorelick about the documentary she made about her mother, Joan Roth, and what it was like growing up with a living legend.

A Tale of Midlife Self-Discovery

Melissa Giberson found out that divorcing a husband of many years and telling her kids that she was gay was the hardest thing she’d ever done.

Talking to Anne Burt, Author of “The Dig”

Anne Burt talks to Lilith about her debut novel, The Dig, and her character’s struggle to reconcile her own ambitions while remaining loyal to her beloved, idealistic brother.

Meryl Ain on “Shadows We Carry”

Author Meryl Ain talks to Lilith about twins, bloodlines, and Jewish identity in her post-Holocaust novel, “Shadows We Carry.”

Alli Frank and Asha Youmans on Their Collaborative Novel

The way two very different women find common ground is at the heart and soul of the novel Never Meant to Meet You and its two authors—one white, the other Black—talk to Yona Zeldis McDonough about how they came together to write it.