As a psychologist for forty-five years, Alberta Nassi has listened to other people’s stories for most of her life. Now she tells a few of her own. Her work has appeared in The Florida Review, West Trade Review, Tablet Magazine and the San Francisco Chronicle. Her essays have been short-listed for the New Letters, New Millennium Writings and Tucson Festival of Books nonfiction prizes. In 2023, Alberta was awarded the Brooklyn Prize for Nonfiction.