Ilana Masad opens up about her father’s death. When I was fifteen years old, my father found out he had Stage IV lung cancer. He’d been wheezing on our weekly walks to his mom’s place for a while and coughing more than usual, so we all knew something was wrong, just not how wrong it…
Ilana Masad
About Ilana Masad
Bio: Ilana Masad is an Israeli-American writer living in New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, McSweney's, Tin House, Broadly, Electric Literature, Read It Forward, BookBub, and many more. She is the founder and host of The Other Stories, a podcast for new, emerging, and struggling writers. She can be found tweeting too much @ilanaslightly.