Laura Bernstein-Machlay

Laura Bernstein-Machlay teaches literature and creative writing at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. Her work has appeared in the The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, The North American Review, and the The Massachusetts Review. She is the author of Travelers, a collection of essays.

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 4, 2017

Thriving and Striving

Introducing our newest Daily Scholar columnist

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday July 28, 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 5, 2016

Starving

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday February 23, 2024

Bad Jew

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday September 22, 2022

The Dinner Party

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Thursday May 26, 2022

Wild Turkey Afternoon

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Wednesday March 25, 2020
Bernstein-Machlay: The human egg cherry-picks the precise sperm it wants

Why the Egg Matters

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Monday March 2, 2020

Present Tense

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Tuesday September 4, 2018

Urban Wild

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Tuesday September 5, 2017

Driving Toward the Breach

By Laura Bernstein-Machlay | Friday September 1, 2017

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