Minna Zallman Proctor is the author of the memoirs Landslide: True Stories and Do You Hear What I Hear? My Father, the Priesthood, and Religious Calling and co-author of Bethany Beardslee's autobiography, I Sang The Unsingable: My Life in 20th Century Music. She is an acclaimed translator from Italian, including the recently published Happiness, As Such by Natalia Ginzburg and These Possible Lives by Fleur Jaeggy, as well as Cesare Pavese's The Leucothea Dialogues (forthcoming October 2025). Her short stories, lyrical essays, and writing about art and literature have appeared in Conjunctions, Bookforum, Aperture, The Nation, and American Scholar, among other publications. She taught creative writing at the graduate and undergraduate level at Fairleigh Dickinson University for many years, where she was Editor of the now-defunct The Literary Review and then Director of the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing. She was Editor and Co-Founder of the local lifestyle magazine yogacitynyc.com and worked for many years in magazines—including COLORS, BOMB, LUCKY, and GOOD—where she developed her skills in design, branding, and communications strategy. She is working on a collection of short stories and a multimedia book about how to write.