Recipient of the Theodore Hoepfner Fiction Award and past writer-in-residence at the Mishkenot Sha'ananim Artist Colony in Jerusalem, Pushcart Prize nominee Perle Besserman was praised by Isaac Bashevis Singer for the "clarity and feeling for mystic lore" of her writing and by Publisher's Weekly for its "wisdom [that] points to a universal practice of the heart." Her autobiographical novel, Pilgrimage , was published by Houghton Mifflin, and her electronic book story collection, Marriage and Other Travesties of Love , by Cantarabooks. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous literary journals both in print and online; these include The Southern Humanities Review, The Nebraska Review,… Briarcliff Review, Transatlantic Review, 13th Moon, Bamboo Ridge, Lilith, Hurricane Alice, Crab Creek Review, Other Voices, Agni, Southerly, Page Seventeen, Midstream, Sketch Media, Kaimana, The Oddville Press, Dark Sky Magazine, The Sylvan Echo, Fiction Circus, Prick of the Spindle, Emprise Review, Stirring Fiction, Fogged Clarity, Cantaraville, Mixed Nerve, Cerise Press, SNReview, The Caper Literary Journal, The Write Room, Bearcreekfeed , and Untoward , among others.