I’m delighted to share my essay, “Finding My Voice After Fifty: How Faith, Cancer, and an Unexpected Dream Led Me Back to Writing,” published by Women Writers, Women’s Books. In the piece, I write about the rather winding road that eventually led me to become a novelist—from studying philosophy and religion, to converting to Judaism, to surviving throat cancer, and finally to writing The Adventures of Gefilda Fische. I didn’t publish my first novel until after fifty. One of t