Past events & endorsements
"Witty and serious, charming and self-effacing, S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg dissects her life experiences that, in turn, pushes her audience to do the same. She's a joy as a presenter, easy in her delivery or in an interview-style program, never failing to connect with each and every person who has the privilege of being in the audience." --Marilyn Levitch Hassid, assistant executive director, retired, Evelyn Rubenstein JCC Houston
"Sandi Wisenberg gave a terrific presentation to our students on writing, publishing, editing, and, more generally, making a career as a writer. The students remarked afterwards how helpful they found her, and how honest and compelling they found her discussion with us to be." J. A. Bernstein, associate professor, The Center for Writers, University of Southern Mississippi, graduate class on publishing, Spring 2023 (online)
"Sandi Wisenberg's talk was humorous, insightful and revealing."--Irina Ruvinsky, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, professor, "Illness as Metaphor" class, Spring 2022
"Collaborating with S.L. Wisenberg on the panel, 'Storytelling and humor as strategy of "survivance"' was such a pleasure! She kept the needs of the audience in mind and gave a presentation that was funny and well researched. The audience members were eager to participate, thanks to her welcoming demeanor and wry sense of humor." Gayle Levy, associate professor of French, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Recordings/podcasts: Let's Talk Memoir with Ronit Plank, New Books Network: Literature with G.P. Gottlieb, The Power of Storytelling in Breast Cancer on Breast Cancer Conversations, Julie Zuckerman's Literary Modiin online discussion and reading with Elizabeth Graver and Jennifer Rosner, Bet Debora-Jewish Women's Perpectives with Norli Lappin-Eppel, I'm a Writer But... with Lindsay Hunter , The Ben Joravsky Show, fiction/non/fiction with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan. interview on Scott Simon's Open Book
Past events:
Midwest Modern Language Association conference, 2024
Chicago Printers Row Lit Fest: workshop/ panel/ reading, 2019, 2023, 2024
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Yom HaShoah, 2024
Association for Jewish Studies conference, 2023 and 2024
Emory University, Creative Writing Visiting Writers Series, 2023
Guild Complex Exhibit B reading, 2023
Temple B'nai Israel, Hattiesburg, MS, 2023
University of Southern Mississippi Center for Writers, 2023
Southern Jewish Historical Society conference, 2023
Montgomery Lecture Series, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Chicago, 2023
DePaul University, 2023
Chicago Loop Synagogue, 2023
Authors in Conversation, the J, Houston, 2023
Literary Modiin online, discussion and reading with Elizabeth Graver and Jennifer Rosner, 2023
Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture, College of Charleston, 2023
University of Scranton Slattery Center for the Ignatian Humanities, 2023
Marilyn T. and Byron C. Shutz Lecture Series, University of Missouri-Kansas City, 2023 (online)
University of Southern Mississippi, 2023 (online)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2022
Park Ridge (IL) Public Library, 2022 (online)
Elgin (IL) Community College, Writers Center Reading Series, 2002, 2019
University of Tampa low-residency MFA Program, 2015
Brown University, Great Brown Nonfiction Writers' Lecture Series, 2013
Houston Jewish Book Fair, 2001, 2002, 2009
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa; Bankhead Visiting Writers Series, 2009
Creighton University, 2009
University of Iowa, Examined Life: Writing and the Art of Medicine conference (keynote), 2008
Grand Valley State University, 2008
Aquinas College, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
Columbia College Chicago, Creative Nonfiction Week, 1998, 2002, 2006
Texas A&M University, Women's & Gender Equity Resource Center, 2006; Center for Humanities Research, 2001
Purdue University, Cancer Culture & Community workshop, 2007; Jewish Studies Lecture Series, 2001 and 2004
University of Minnesota, Mankato, Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer 2005
Lafayette College; Easton, Pennsylvania, Closs Writer in Residence, 2004
Drew University, 2003
Western Michigan University, 2001, 2003
Miami Book Fair International, 2002
University of Miami, 2002
College of DuPage (IL), 2002
American Literature Assn., Jewish-American and Holocaust Literature Symposium, 2002
Northwestern University Center for the Writing Arts, 2002
Association for Women Journalists, Chicago, 2002; Dallas, 2002
Dallas Museum of Art, Arts & Letters Live, 2002
Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas, Women's Education Series, 2002
Skokie (IL) Public Library, 2002
Arlington Heights (IL) Memorial Library, 2002
Ela Area Public Library District, Lake Zurich, IL, 2002
Off Campus Writers' Workshop, Winnetka, IL, 2002
Jewish Book & Culture Fair, Milwaukee, 2001
University of Houston-Clear Lake, Women's Studies, 2001
Loyola University, Chicago, 1993 and 2001
Millikin University, Decatur, IL, 2001
University of Missouri-Kansas City, Women and the Holocaust program, 2000
American Medical Writers Association, Chicago chapter, 2000