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Ellen Meeropol

Ellen Meeropol is the author of the novels Sometimes an Island, The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest, and guest editor for the anthology Dreams for a Broken World. Essay and publications include Ms. Magazine, Lilith, The Writer Magazine, The Boston Globe, and Guernica. Ellen is married to Robert Meeropol, younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.

By Ellen Meeropol

Dear Ethel: an essay

by Ellen Meeropol

Dear Ethel,

I lost your ring.
It was the only thing of yours we had, other than the letters you and Julius exchanged.

Spring 2026

Gridlock

by Ellen Meeropol

My sister Ruth showed up on day four of the blackout, the day we began to suspect this wasn’t an ordinary grid failure. There had been no blizzard, no major wind event. It wasn’t even that cold, though the early November air already held the crisp-edged fragility of the coming western Massachusetts winter. The utility

Spring 2020

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