“Embers is a story that pulls you in with richly drawn characters and a skillfully intertwined plot twist that you’ll never see coming...”
—Dawn Porter, award-winning film producer and director,
John Lewis: Good Trouble
About Embers on the Wind
The past and the present converge in this enthralling, serpentine tale of women connected by motherhood, slavery’s legacy, and histories that span centuries.
About the Author
I am an author and psychotherapist specializing in trauma and racial identity, with essays published in Longreads, Narratively, Mamalode, The Common, and fiction in Literary Mama and The Piltdown Review. A born-and-raised New Yorker, I now live in Montclair, New Jersey with my husband and dog. I am the mother of two college students.
Praise
“Lisa Williamson Rosenberg captures both the conflagration of slavery and its ignited sprawl through time in this stirring collection of linked stories surrounding Whittaker House... ...Embers on the Wind speaks of our connections-temporal, relative, corporeal, and spiritual-in ways that reckon with an ever-present past."
—M Shelly Conner
author of everyman, a novel
“A gorgeously layered novel, cinematic in scope and yet hauntingly intimate. Embers on the Wind crosses the barriers between the living and the dead, illuminating how intergenerational trauma reverberates through history…”
—Marco Rafalà, author of How Fires End
“Ambitious and enthralling,
Embers on the Wind is a richly-told story of women bound by generations past and by spirits struggling to uncover truths… Gripping and harrowing, start to finish.”
—Susan Bernhard, author of Winter Loon
“Lisa Williamson Rosenberg’s Embers on the Wind is a delight that will keep you turning pages to the very end. Her lyrical writing transports us from the 19th century Underground Railroad to the Brooklyn of today… the history is as vibrant as present-day life. The women in this book are searching for freedom and… bring us along for the magical ride.”
—Cary Barbor, Host of NPR’s Gulf Coast Life Book Club
“…Embers on the Wind bends time to bring together a kaleidoscope of Black and white lives that seek, shatter, and rise in a stunning conclusion. Lisa Williamson Rosenberg has written a powerful, haunting tale…”
—Laurie Lico Albanese, author of Stolen Beauty and Hester
“Ambitious and enthralling,
Embers on the Wind is a richly-told story of women bound by generations past and by spirits struggling to uncover truths… Gripping and harrowing, start to finish.”
—William Dameron, author of The Lie: A Memoir of Two Marriages, Catfishing and Coming Out
Latest Post
Women’s Fiction Day is coming up on Thursday, June 8th! To celebrate the day, I’m delighted to be joining with the Women’s Fiction Writers Association and giving away two signed copies of Embers on the Wind. Just comment on this post to enter. Include your name and email address. Happy Women’s Fiction Day and…
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