Mer­ri Ukrain­cik is an award-win­ning writer whose per­son­al essays, arti­cles, and poems have appeared in Tablet, The Lehrhaus, The Jew­ish Week, and oth­er pub­li­ca­tions. She is the author of the cof­fee table book I Live: Send Help, about the Amer­i­can Jew­ish Joint Dis­tri­b­u­tion Com­mit­tee. You can fol­low her writ­ing and oth­er adven­tures via her Sub­stack, Days of Rest, or on Face­book.