An Evening with Authors Ronit Plank and Kathy Curto

Join us for an evening with writers in conversation. Author Ronit Plank will talk about her new book "Home Is a Made- Up Place" a short story collection of stories with Kathy Curto author of "Not for Nothing-Glimpses into a Jersey Girlhood."

Ronit Plank's book "Home is a Made-Up Place" invites readers into the lives of people grappling with emotional injuries and confronting the past to become who they wish to be. Set in NYC, New England, the Southwest, and rural Alaska, a single mother fights to protect her son, a daughter tries to forget her missing mother, a couple struggles to keep a marriage together and their children safe, and a family must face the truth about their father. Bracing and intimate, Home is a Made-Up Place is a collection of stories about reclaiming personal power, recognizing the difference between what can and cannot be changed, and the pull of familial attachments despite the toll they might take. 

Her other book a memoir "When She Comes Back" is about the loss of Ronit’s mother to the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, the guru at the center of the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, and their eventual reconciliation. It’s also the story of a family trying to find itself, grownups who don’t know how to be adults, and what happens when the person your life revolves around can’t stay.

Ronit Plank's work has been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Iowa Review, The Rumpus, American Literary Review, Writer’s Digest, and The New York Times. She has two Podcasts "And Then Everything Changed" that highlights the lives of people who have survived painful experiences and have made it their mission to help others find their way. And "The Body Myth" dedicated to interviews with women about body image, America’s dangerous diet culture, and how they are finding body peace. 

Kathy Curto's work has been featured in The New York Times, on NPR, in the anthology Listen to Your Mother:  What She Said Then, What We’re Saying Now, and in Barrelhouse, Oh Reader, Memoir Magazine, The Mom Egg Review, HerStry, Drift and Talking Writing among others. Her piece, “Still Cooking Side by Side” considered a “Modern Love in miniature” by The New York Times, was included in The Best of Tiny Love Stories in August 2021.

Copies will be available for purchase in the library.