Author, mentor, writing teacher and speaker
For the first time ever I was interviewed about my micro-lit writing. And about my reading too, which is always great to talk about. Of course, it’s a micro-interview 
🙂 Here:
https://shortaustralianstories.com.au/time-microlit-author-lee-kofman/…
Many years ago, in one of those serendipitous but fateful-feeling writing discoveries, I came across an essay by the American poet Louise Gluck. In her poetry, Gluck said, she was attracted to gaps and ellipsis, to disruption and hesitation, to …
My poem Permanence is being read by a professional actress, then discussed by Coffee Podcast hosts.…
I first started writing my recently completed memoir, Things Nobody Knows But Me, when I was doing my Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing. I titled it then Sins of the Mother. I was 20-years-old and even though I …
Two years ago I pitched a short memoir to a notable Australian literary magazine. It was a story from my childhood about how I helped my parents, then dissidents in the Soviet Union, to hide forbidden literature during a KGB …
How do I write about my parents, Jock and Bess’, lives when they are no longer here, ethically, with credibility? How do I use their stories to examine universal issues such as the futility of war, post-traumatic stress disorder and …