About

Biography

My professional background has encompassed dance, theatre, film, television, and fiction writing. Featured roles in the classical repertory include:

  • The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest and Twelfth Night)
  • The Mark Taper Forum (Volpone and Henry IV, Part 1)
  • The Rothschilds (Broadway)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (w/ Richard Chamberlain), Ahmanson Theater, L.A.
  • The Voysey Inheritance, Walnut Street Theater, Philadelphia
Publications

  • The State of California: Growing Up Foreign in the Backyards of Eden, (Knopf, 1989)

  • Independent Presses: The Quarterly, Kenyon Review, Story Quarterly No.23

Education

Hunter College, City University of New York: BA and MA in English Literature

 

Fellowships and Awards

  • New York Council on the Arts, Literature Fellowship, 1990

  • Blanche Colton Williams English Fellowship

  • Hunter Alumni English Fellowship

  • National Endowment for the Arts, Fiction Fellowship, 1984-1985

Teaching

Fiction writing, The Writer’s Voice, NYC

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