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Gloria Garfunkel

Location Massachusetts
Occupation Psychologist and Writer
Website http://

About Me

I wrote the chapter Lifeline in the book A Perilous Calling. It's an essay about doing psychotherapy with suicidal patients in the context of my own family history. I have also published over thirty short stories in Natural Bridge, Eclectica, Six Sentences, Connotation Press, Every Day Fiction, Rose and Thorn Journal, Red Fez,The Linnet's Wings, Thrice Fiction, Blue Fifth Review, Fiction 365, Camroc Press Review, LucidPlay, Pure Slush, Jewish Fiction.net and Olentangy.

I am the daughter of Holocaust survivors and have a Ph.D. in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard. I've been a therapist for thirty years.

To prevent future Holocausts for my own children and grandchildren, I am unequivocally anti-nuke.

Why do you write?

When I'm in a Good Mood::
I write to communicate to others what is unspeakable in conversation. Half is about the Holocaust and half is about the surreal absurdities of life. I also just write for the fun of it and to better understand myself. I am a painter and therapist and that fuels my writing as well.

In a Bad Mood:
I don’t know anymore. When I’m blocked I lose motivation and purpose. I lose a reason for writing, I lose anything to write about. I lose myself altogether. I forget why I wanted to write in the first place. Something about mortality, leaving a mark that I was here and had a voice.

Any favorite authors? Books?

Kafka, Babel, the Russians, Borges, Poe, Lydia Davis, Tim O'Brien. Myths, fairy tales, Mothra.