Monica Wesolowska

Monica Wesolowska is the author of the memoir “Holding Silvan: A Brief Life,” which was named a “Best Book of 2013” by both The Boston Globe and Library Journal and has been internationally published. Her stories and essays have appeared in many other venues including the New York Times, The Carolina Quarterly, and “Best New American Voices.” A regular speaker at hospitals about neonatal loss, she also conducts writing workshops about loss. She has taught creative writing at UC Berkeley Extension and around the Bay Area for over a decade.