On The Craft of Writing

Perspective: Past and Present

Showing Character

The "I" as Character

What is the Contemporary Memoir?

"Sketching and Shrinking Time", Gotham Writers Workshop. 2007

“Playing With Time in the Memoir,” The Writer Magazine, March 2007

Published Articles by Karen Propp (Partial List)

Hakoah Vienna: 100 Years Old and Still Powering On, The Jewish Daily Forward,, November 2009

Cheap Thrill - Secondhand stores give a lift to more than just my pocketbook, Boston Globe, Auugust 2009

If You Can Write It, I Can Write It, Too, Lilith, Spring 2009

“Matching Luggage.” Prevention Magazine. January 2006

“Words Can Hurt,” Lilith: The Independent Jewish Women’s Magazine. January 2006

“51 Birch Street.” 18th Annual Boston Jewish Film Festival, 2006 Program Book

“Espionage: Spies, Terrorist Hunters and an Uneasy Reporter Try to Decode the Middle East.” Lilith: The Independent Jewish Women’s Magazine. Winter 2004

“Marriage and Motherhood as Vulnerable Points for Women.” The Complete Guide to Women’s Mental Health, Ed. Lauren Slater et. al., Beacon Press 2003

“Pregnancy as a Life Passage.” The Complete Guide to Women’s Mental Health. Ed. Lauren Slater et .al. Beacon Press 2003

“The Retreat.” The Writing Group Book. Ed. Lisa Rosenthal. Chicago Review Press. 2003

“Out of Step.” Experiencing Infertility. Ed. Ellen Sarasohn Glazer. Jossey-Bass. 1998

“Losing One’s Virginity Again.” Experiencing Infertility. Ed. Ellen Sarasohn Glazer. Jossey-Bass. 1998

“Emerging on the Other Side of a Marriage,” Lilith: The independent Jewish Women’s Magazine. Spring 2003

“The Path to Loving Relationships: Five Dramatically Divergent Directions.” Lilith: The Independent Jewish Women’s Magazine. Summer 2003

“Women Against Prostate Cancer.” Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel. September 2003

“Sex Slave.” Salon.com May 7, 2001

“Sarah’s Laugh: How Infertile Women Deal.” Reproductive Health Matters. Vol. 7, No. 13, May 1999

“Where Life Begins.” The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas. July 1998

“The End and The Means: Review of Wanting a Child: Twenty-Two Writers on Their Difficult But Mostly Successful Quests for Parenthood in a High-Tech Age.” Ed. Jill Bialosky and Helen Schulman. The Women’s Review of Books. September 1998

“Land Lady: Review of The Farm She Was.” Ann Mohin. The Women’s Review of Books. July 1988

“Inventing a Life: Review of The Sharp Teeth of Love.” Doris Betts. The Women’s Review of Books. July 1997

“How To Hide: Instructions from a Daughter of Survivors.” Lilith: The Independent Jewish Women’s Magazine. Winter 1994