Kessler's journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times Magazine, O Magazine, Ladies Home Journal, Woman's Day, Prevention (magazine), newsweek.com, salon.com, The Nation Magazine, Nieman Storyboard, Writer's Digest and farmer-ish. Many of her essays on writing are compiled in The Write Path: Essays on the Art of Writing and the Joy of Reading (Monroe Press, 2015).
