Author of Queen for a Day & The Missing Kidney

Award-winning fiction blending humor, heart & hard truths.

The Missing Kidney

One of Oprah’s 26 Best 2025 Summer Reads 

“Fans of Lorrie Moore can quench their thirst for witty short stories and self-aware, smart-ass narrators with these tales of love and work in New York City in the 1970s and ’80s.”

New York Times Book Review

Brimming with scrappy characters navigating life in New York in the ‘70s and ‘80s . . .a kaleidoscopic period piece and a  timeless exploration of the complexities of human relationships.

Kirkus Starred Review

The best short story writer you’ve never heard of.

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Queen for a Day

“Generously unsentimental, spiritually probing and filled with piercing intimacies–DeWitt Henry.”  Founding Editor of Ploughshares, author of Sweet Marjoram: Notes and Essays

“Queen for a Day crackles with insight, energy, and New York City wit.  Maxine Rosaler’s novel in stories revolves around an odd sorority of mothers brought together–and sometimes apart–by their autistic children. ”  Eliza Factor, author of Strange Beauty.

“In ‘Queen for a Day,’ [Rosaler] has been able to tell a story that, although woven with unbearable frustrations and fears, ultimately reveals lives that grow in love, acceptance and gratitude. It is a story that each of us needs to read.”  Karen Lehrman Bloch, LA Jewish Journal

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