Author of THEY WERE LIKE FAMILY TO ME, a collection of linked stories illuminated with magical realism, following the inhabitants of a small town in 1942 Poland and tracing the troubling complex choices they are compelled to make. Finalist for The Story Prize and Honorable Mention in the 2017 ALA Sophie Brody Medal for achievement in Jewish Literature. Originally published as IN THE LAND OF ARMADILLOS. Columnist for the Jewish Standard.
My short stories appear, or are forthcoming, in The Kenyon Review, Cream City Review, Gargoyle, Grift, Danse Macabre, and JewishFiction.net.
Sometimes my fiction comes from family stories of surviving the Holocaust. And sometimes, it comes from surviving my family.
HELEN MARYLES SHANKMAN 
Congratulations, Helen!
Thank you, Brent!