Her mother Frieda Goldberg Falk, a teacher, spoke Yiddish fluently and attended Hebrew school as a child at her Orthodox synagogue, the only girl to do so.

Her painting "Gilead Apples" was used as the cover illustration for her book The Days Between: Blessings, Poems, and Directions of the Heart for the Jewish High Holiday Season.

[3] She has also created a series of mizrachs featuring oil pastel paintings accompanied by texts from her volume of Hebrew and English prayers, The Book of Blessings.

[4] Falk’s poems have appeared in the American Poetry Review, Choice, Moment, Poet & Critic, Poetry Society of America Magazine, Her Face in the Mirror: Jewish Women on Mothers and Daughters (Beacon Press, 1994), September 11, 2001: American Writers Respond (Etruscan Press, 2002), Voices Within the Ark: The Modern Jewish Poets (Avon Books, 1980), Fire and Rain: Ecopoetry of California (Scarlet Tanager Books, 2018), and many other magazines and anthologies.

Rabbi David Teutsch of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College praised the author for demonstrating "a poet’s gift for words that open inner vistas, a liturgist’s capacity to speak to the universal, a scholar’s insight into Jewish traditions and texts, and a contemporary feminist’s fresh vision.

[9] Falk lives in Berkeley, California, with her husband, the poet Steven Jay Rood; they have one son, Abraham Gilead Falk-Rood.