SHORT FICTION

Pity
Post Road, April 2015

Priest Pond
Prairie Schooner, September 2013

Eleanor
The Thomas Wolfe Review, 2011

ESSAYS

Seeing the World Through My Mother’s Eyes
Next Avenue, October 19, 2023

Historical Fiction: The Pleasures and Perils of Writing About Other Eras
A Conversation with Christina Baker Kline
Poets & Writers, Sept/Oct 2019

Five Best: Lisa Gornick on Freud in Fiction
The Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2019

19 FSG Writers on the Women who Inspire Them
Work In Progress, March 29, 2019

A Quaker Woman Writes About War
Paris Review, February 19, 2019

Lisa Gornick’s Playlist for Her Novel “The Peacock Feast”
largehearted boy, February 5, 2019

Designing My Characters’ Homes Helps Me Write
Literary Hub, February 1, 2019

Book Culture Blog
July 2016

The End
Salon, March 12, 2016

Can Writing Make You a Better Person?
The Story Prize Blog, December 2, 2015

Unloved Neighbor
Real Simple Magazine, November 2015

Is My Book A Novel?
Work In Progress/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, June 2015

An Analyst Teaches the Personal Essay
Glimmer Train Bulletin, June 2015

Why I Never Wrote About My Patients
The New York Times, May 2015

Bach’s Prayer
Slate, December 23, 2014

The Story Behind the Story: Five Elements
The American Psychoanalyst, September 2014

On Being Read To
Read Her Like an Open Book, July 2014

Privacy
The Huffington Post, April 4, 2014

The Writer-Traveler
Glimmer Train Bulletin, November 2013

A ‘Tinderbox’ Built on ‘Embers’
Book Keeping

Our Nannies
The Huffington Post, August 16, 2013

Things
The Sun, March 2013

Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession
Book Keeping

Googling Your Therapist
The Huffington Post, July 25, 2012

Can We Write About Our Kids? Further Reflections
May 20, 2010

Can We Write About Our Kids?
May 6, 2010

SELECTED PAPERS

“Women treating men: Interview data from female psychotherapists,”
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, 22:231-257, 1994

“Freud and The Creative Writer”
Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought, 10:103‑127, 1987.

“Effects of Work‑Related Separations on Children and Families,” (with C. Piotrkowski),
J. Bloom‑Feshbach and S. Bloom‑Feshbach (Eds.), The Psychology of Separation and Loss. San Francisco: Jossey‑Bass Publishers, 1987.

“Developing a new narrative: The woman therapist and the male patient,”
Psychoanalytic Psychology, 3:299‑325, 1986.

“Novelizing and Analyzing,”
The Newsletter of the Association for Psychoanalytic Medicine, Vol. 1:1, Winter 2003

“Novelizing and analyzing,”
The Algonkian, 16: Fall 2002