Fran Dorf

I've been a writer since I was an angst-filled teenager, when I secretly wrote stories, poems, and even about 100 pages of a novel. At this point I've had a bunch of stuff published: articles, essays, poems, and three highly acclaimed, internationally translated novels, A REASONABLE MADNESS, FLIGHT, and SAVING ELIJAH. All three are available now in KINDLE editions. I'm also a psychotherapist and I suppose all three of my published novels fall into the genre of psychodrama, or maybe psychothriller, although SAVING ELIJAH is also part ghost story. Mostly, SAVING ELIJAH, which does feature an outrageous, wise-cracking, blaspheming spectral literary device, is a story about maternal desperation, grief, and losing a child, a subject with which I'm unfortunately familiar, since I lost my own son a number of years ago. Check it out. You may find it terrifying, since I was terrified when I wrote it, but I think you'll also find it inspirational! (In an authentic, rather than sentimental way.)

I'm not nearly as terrified now, which may be why I've now become a psychotherapist and bereavement counselor, and lately I've been trying my hand at playwriting.

Contact me at frandorf@aol.com, or via one of my websites:

www.frandorf.ink. There I describe some of my current writing projects, including several plays and an adaptation of Saving Elijah as a television series.

www.frandorf.com. There I describe my psychotherapy practice, and have a blog about bereavement, writing as a healing tool, psychological topics of all kinds, and surviving this crazy life.