Avital's work has appeared in the Atlantic, the New York Times, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Vogue, Glamour, the LA Review of Books, and the Jewish Review of Books, among many others. Her fiction has appeared in Fiction, the Florida Review, Tablet, and Moment. She is also a news editor at The Real Deal magazine, and in her 'spare time', she's an Orthodox Jewish rebbetzin at the synagogue that her husband and she founded on the Upper East Side. Her first book is now out on submission with WME's Eve Attermann.