"The LABA fellowship has given me the great gift of the company of extraordinary teachers and fellow artists: in wrestling with, investigating, and playing with texts and teachings, we have been reinventing, in community, what it means to conceive of ourselves and our work in conversation with those traditions. As a result of this transformative process, my own fiction now combines a variety of new elements, including Torah and Jewish folklore, into stories set in present times and taking on social justice and environmental issues."