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Marcie Maxfield

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Marcie Maxfield is an award-winning novelist, essayist, playwright, and speaker whose work blends humor, authenticity, and sharp cultural observation, with a particular focus on women’s lives, identity, and belonging. She is the author of JewGirl: On Being and Belonging, winner of the 2026 Next Generation Indie Book Award for Women’s Issues, and the novel Em’s Awful Good Fortune, winner of the Independent Press Award for Contemporary Novel. Her play Girls Together Always, about growing up girl, received an ENCORE! Producers’ Award at the Hollywood Fringe Festival. Originally from Detroit, Maxfield moved to Los Angeles to pursue a career in media, marketing, and publishing and now calls Palm Springs home.

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Em's Awful Good Fortune

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IMPOSTER'S PRAYER

This Friday, I have been called on to give the aliyot. Not just any Friday; this is Rosh Hashanah, as in the High Holidays. In my family, we called it “the Rosh.”

I thought aliyot meant prayer. It doesn’t. 😊

I have been told that it is a big honor. By pretty much everyone.

It is also the reason I have been sweating over phonetic cue cards for the last four weeks straight.

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Published on September 09, 2026 12:30 • Tags: author-life, belonging, imposter-syndrome, jewgirl, jewish-identity, judaism, rosh-hashanah

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You Could Make This Place Beautiful by Maggie  Smith
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A deep reflection on marriage and motherhood during and after divorce. And a scathing indictment of absentee fathers. It's almost like the husband/father (referred to as "the sender" after the narrator finds a postcard addressed to another woman in h ...more
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Allison Turns The Page by Leslie A. Rasmussen
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Love, love, loved this book. Laugh-out-loud funny, engaging, and relatable. Leslie Rasmussen writes smart, snappy contemporary women’s stories. Allison becomes a best-selling author and quits her day job. Every woman’s dream! And then the fun begins. ...more
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