KaSa Media University

Ronit Plank is an award-winning writer, teacher, and podcaster who has helmed four podcasts, most recently Let's Talk Memoir, and interviewed hundreds of writers, social justice advocates, and survivors. She is the winner of four Communicator Awards including Excellence: Host for Podcasts and Excellence: Documentary Series, and her writing has earned Pushcart Prize, Best Microfiction, and Best of the Net nominations. WHEN SHE COMES BACK her memoir about the loss of her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their eventual reconciliation was named Finalist in the 2021 Housatonic Awards, the 2021 Indie Excellence Awards, and was a 2021 Book Riot Best True Crime Book. Her short story collection HOME IS A MADE-UP PLACE won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award and the 2023 Page Turner Awards for Short Stories. She earned an MFA in Nonfiction Writing at Pacific University, is Creative Nonfiction Editor at The Citron Review, and lives in Seattle with her family where she teaches podcasting and memoir workshops and is working on her next book.