Ronit Plank is a writer, teacher, speaker, and host and producer of the award-winning podcast And Then Everything Changed. A native New Yorker and former actress, she studied with Uta Hagen, Alfred Molina, Ensemble Studio Theatre and performed on stage in NYC and Los Angeles. As member of The Actors’ Gang she wrote short sketches and played the role of the Bearded Lady in the LA run of Alagazam. She performed with several teams at Improv Olympic and appeared as special guest in The Improvised Musical and can still improvise a song with no warning at all. While in LA she also taught ELL at Yonsei University and worked with seals and sea lions as a marine mammal volunteer at the Aquarium of the Pacific.
Several years after becoming a mother and moving to Seattle she began writing fiction and creative nonfiction and has had work published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Rumpus, The HuffPost, The Iowa Review, The Seattle Times, Writer's Digest, American Literary Review, and Brevity among others.
She has tutored newly immigrated middle school students in English, taught third grade Hebrew reading and writing, and led support groups for new mothers with PEPS (Program for Early Parent Support).
When She Comes Back, her memoir about losing her mother to the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and their reconciliation, is her first book. Her short story collection Home Is A Made-Up Place won Hidden River Arts’ 2020 Eludia Award for fiction and will be released in 2022. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in Nonfiction writing from Pacific University and lives in Seattle with her family. For more about her and a complete list of work visit: www.ronitplank.com
