Helen Betya Rubinstein's essays and fiction have appeared in Gulf Coast, The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review Daily, and Jewish Currents, and her criticism can be found in Literary Hub, LA Review of Books, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The New York Times. She is interested in subverting conventions of narrative, staging divergent voices in conversation, and using the personal as a prism for investigating questions of social and political consequence. Her book Feels Like Trouble: Transgressive Takes on Teaching, Writing, and Publishing will be published by the University of New Orleans Press. She teaches at The New School and has an active practice as a writing coach.
At MacDowell, Helen worked on a book of personal narrative and researched history that testifies to the impact of Soviet and U.S. policy on memory, personality, and conceptions of truth.
