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SCREENPLAYS - PRODUCED
The Lesson, produced by Cat Eye Films, 2006. 30 minutes. A feisty Argentinean woman discovers her upstairs neighbor's deepest secret. The Lesson's website. (Winner of Best Narrative at the Women's International Film Festival in Miami, 2007)
PLAYS
Thirty Stories Down, produced by Theatre Group, Inc, New York City, December 1997 and by Dreamweaver Productions, New York City, March 1998. A young girl considers her prospects in a high rise apartment with no door. Read it here.
Referents, produced by Le Chat Noir, New Orleans, February 2001. Married professors who can't remember anything for more than 30 seconds welcome friends over for an evening.
The Golden Pedestal, (unproduced.) An aging couple waits for a visit from their son but can't recognize who comes to the door.
SHORT STORIES
"A Girl Like Elsie." Glimmer Train, Issue 7, summer 1993. A young woman supporting her blind mother through prostitution can't hide this fact anymore. Read it here.
“An Out-of-Town Businessman,” Pleiades, volume 21, number 1, 2001. A hotel worker reads a curious newspaper article which leads him to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a businessman whose hotel room he cleaned. Read it here.
"The Shape of a Prayer," Chelsea 58, summer 1995.
POEMS
“Subway Poem #9,” The Grecourt Review, spring 1989.
“Subway Poem #6,” The Grecourt Review, spring 1989.
“Howser and Neufer,” The Green Age Literary Review, spring 1989.
“What My Friend Told Me Once,” The Green Age Literary Review, spring 1989.
“Things That Go Bump in the Night,” The Grecourt Review, spring 1987.
“Poem for a Cripple,” The Grecourt Review, spring 1987.
Grants & Awards Writing & Credits
Best Narrative Film, Women's International Film Festival, Miami, 2007
Artist-in-Residence, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, California, spring 1997.
The Transatlantic Review Award (“Henfield Prize”), Henfield Foundation, summer 1994
Chesterfield Writer’s Film Project quarterfinalist, 1994
Pushcart Prize nomination, January 1994. Nominated by Joyce Carol Oates.
Story magazine College Short Fiction Competition prize, December 1992.
Settie L. Fatman Prize for musical composition, Smith College, May 1986.
Pennsylvania Governor’s School for the Arts, full poetry scholarship, summer 1981.
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