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Dear Jaia Papitz, Much appreciated/enjoyed your June 19th interview with Trish Hopkinson. Here's hoping that my one act play suits : ""Work with a surprise factor... Finding a piece that arrives from nowhere and immediately changes the room. That moment when a submission does not ask permission, it simply begins to exist. " Below, too many words about me. I did try to sub this as a pdf , but it kept misloading, so I'm sending it as a doxx. True thanks! lsb
L. Shapley Bassen’s grandmother was a telegrapher on Wall Street a century ago who taught her to read and tapped messages to her in Morse Code. A New Yorker living in Rhode Island, she is a multi-published & prize-winning author of fiction, poetry, & drama.
First Place winner in the 2016 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest http://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2016-02-19/l-shapley-bassens-portra…
2025 novel Blue Monkeys (Shy City House, Chicago]
2025 novel How She Came to Know (Page Turner Books, Inc. North Carolina)
2014 novel Summer of the Long Knives (Typhoon Media- Signal 8)
2014 Lives of Crime & Other Stories (Texture Press)
2017 Showfolk & Stories (Inkception Books)
2019 collected works poetry What Suits a Nudist? (Clare Songbirds Publishing House)
1996 The Month Before the Moon (Samuel French, Inc. https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/1563/the-month-before-the-moon)
Fiction editor at https://www.craftliterary.com/.
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Ioana Cosma is a writer from Romania who has written five volumes of poetry published with Silver Bow in Canada, New Meridian Arts in The United States and The European Institute Press in Romania. Her novels – The Ones from Afar and Verse – have been published in Romania and her play was part of the JCTC festival in New Jersey. She teaches English at the University of Pitesti. She has a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Toronto.