Laura Bernstein-Machlay teaches literature and creative writing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Her work has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, The Georgia Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Alaska Quarterly Review. She is the author of Travelers, a collection of essays.
Laura Bernstein-Machlay
Bad Jew
Reckoning with a heritage as painfully distant as it is impossible to lose
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday, September 22, 2022
The Dinner Party
Certain things shouldn’t be brought up at the dinner table, but in our fraught time, that’s nearly impossible
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday, May 26, 2022
Why the Egg Matters
A meditation on remembrance, family, and time
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Monday, March 02, 2020
Wild Turkey Afternoon
A moment from a week in self-isolation
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Wednesday, March 25, 2020
Present Tense
Even in this interminable drugstore line, my daughter’s last summer before college is slipping by far too quickly
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Tuesday, September 04, 2018
Urban Wild
In slowly gentrifying Detroit, you might see a fox, or even a coyote, but where have all the stray dogs gone?
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Driving Toward the Breach
Woodward Avenue, the Dream Cruise, and the QLine
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, September 01, 2017
Tales From Motor City
Left for dead yet pulsing with life again, Detroit survives as a place of inconsistency and contradiction
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Monday, December 05, 2016
Thriving and Striving
Introducing our newest Daily Scholar columnist
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, July 28, 2017
The Grand Army of the Republic
Look what’s popping up all over the place
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, August 25, 2017
The Little Aquarium That Could
Like Detroit, a tale of rise and fall and rise again
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, August 18, 2017
80,000 Squirrels on My Block Alone
And other tales of Detroit wildlife
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, August 11, 2017
Snapshots
The city may be changing, but the music is as great as ever
by Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday, August 04, 2017
