Minna Zallman Proctor is the author of the memoirs
Landslide: True Stories and
Do You Hear What I Hear? My Father, the Priesthood, and Religious Calling and co-author of Bethany Beardslee's autobiography,
I Sang The Unsingable: My Life in 20th Century Music. She is an acclaimed translator from Italian, including the recently published
Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg and
These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy, as well as Cesare Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues (forthcoming 2025). Her writing has appeared in Conjunctions, Bookforum, Aperture, The Nation, and American Scholar, among other publications. She has taught creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate level at Fairleigh Dickinson University where she is currently Interim Director of the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing. For over a decade, she was editor of The Literary Review a/k/a TLR (now defunct) and before that worked at Colors Magazine (now defunct) and BOMB (thriving). She lives in Brooklyn and is working on a collection of short stories, a multimedia book about craft, and a translation of Fabrizia Ramondino's Althénopis.