[1] Karmel's writing has appeared in numerous publications including Bellevue Literary Review, The Talking Stick, Pearl, Dust & Fire, Passager Books, Jewish Women's Literary Annual, and Water~Stone Review.
Her story Subtle Variations was anthologized in Milkweed Editions' Fiction on a Stick.
It concerns an 85-year-old widow, Esther Lustig, who suddenly finds herself elderly and in the midst of a pushed-transition to an assisted-living facility she refers to as 'Bingoville'.
[7] In 2017 Miriam Karmel's collection Subtle Variations and Other Stories (October, 2017) won the inaugural Holy Cow!
[2] Anthony Bukoski praises Kamel for locating the universal in the details of everyday life, but states a difficulty in some cases of sorting out family relationships.