Fredricka R. Maister is a Philadelphia-based writer whose personal essays and articles explore the full spectrum of human experience—from the mundane to the offbeat, the shocking to the life-changing. Her work has appeared in a range of publications, including The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, New York Jewish Week/The Times of Israel, Jewish Exponent, HuffPost, Broad Street Review, The Writer, Brevity Blog, and The Manifest Station, among others. Three Times a Mourner: Personal Essays on Grief and Healing is her first book.