WRITING

PAPERS & PUBLICATIONS:

Artist Interview, Short Fiction, Reviews, Articles, Panel Papers, Poetry, Dramatic Dialogue and Monologue, Creative Non-Fiction, Dissertation

Interview: “Interview With Richard Brown Lethem,” 2005

Dissertation: Portraits of Success: Immigrant Women’s Strategies for Overcoming Barriers in the Urban U.S., Boston University, 1995

Article: “Emotional Lives of Refugee and Immigrant Mothers in the Urban U.S.: Strategies for Acculturation,” in Selected Papers on Refugee Issues IV, Ann M. Rynearson and James Phillips, Editors, CORI (Committee on Refugees and Immigrants) Publications of the American Anthropological Association; Part II: Starting Life in a New Land: Communities and Individuals; 1995

Corresponding Editor: Council on Refugees and Immigrants (CORI) for Newsletter of the American Anthropological Association, 1994-1996

Poem, “Early May,” http://bestpoem.wordpress.com/2009/01, January, 2009

Short Story Collection of 8 or more stories focusing on the inner lives of handicapped children and youth, 2008-09

Creative Non-fiction: A Way of Going Elsewhere: Growing Up in the Twenties on the Lower East Side, 2008

Poem: “Raymond and Thelma in Boston”: Boston City Hall Poetry Exhibit, 2008

Chapbook, Fall, 2007: Creative Writing with Spanish Judges, from English Intensive Ekphrastic Writing Workshop; Publisher: International Institute in Madrid

Chapbook, Fall, 2007: Wounded Warriors; contributor, workshop teacher. Publisher: Freedom-to-Write Committee, PEN New England

Memoir (Work in Progress): Hajnal: 2006: Memoir in progress of Hungarian-Jewish American operatic singer who seeks out Hungarian relatives in 1938

Interview: “Interview with (Painter) Richard Brown Lethem,” Words and Images; http://www.aucocisco.com/artists/richard_lethem_05/interview.html, February 2005

Theatre Review of Permanent Collection, in ArtsEditor, “Permanent Collection at the New Repertory Theatre, 2004: http://www.artseditor.com/html/opinions/1104_permanent.shtml

Poetry: I’m With You: Online in Poets Against the War.Org: http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=10996#453070069, February, 2003

The Wholeness of Dead Bodies: Online in Poets Against the war.Org: http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=10996#453071190, February, 2003

Paper: American Anthropological Association, San Francisco: Panel on Visual Anthropology: “Transferring Ethnography to Fiction,” Nov, 2000

Invited Paper: Society for Applied Anthropology: Santa Fe: “Without Footnotes: Writing Creative Ethnography,” Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA): process of ethnographic fiction, March, 2009

Article: “Using Oral Histories to Elicit Reflective Writings: The Experience of Being an Immigrant Adolescent in the Urban U.S., MultiCultural Review, Vol. 4, 2, June, 1995

Paper: “Adolescent Multicultural Reflections on Gathering Community Oral Histories,” International Multicultural Conference: University of Massachusetts at Lowell, 1994

Teacher Guide and Student Workbook, Multicultural Oral History Curriculum: Chelsea Public Schools, Chelsea, MA, 1992

Book Review: Hopeful Openings: A Study of Five Women's Development Organizations in Latin American and the Caribbean, by Yudelman, Sally; (Women in International Development (WID) movement); www.anthrosource.net/doi/ pdfplus/10.1525/jlat.1991.3.2.72 OR http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1525/jlca.1991.3.2.72?cookieSet=1&journalCode=jlca.3 (Latin American Anthropology Review), Winter, 1991

Short Story, “Joe’s Second-hand Shoppe,” The Monadnock Writer, 1985

Cover Story: “Shoplifting in New England: Any number can play, The New Englander, Vol. 23, 11, p. 40, 1977, March

Staged Readings of Short-Short Plays based on ethnographic research of Salvadoran Mothers Strategies for Cultural Integration

American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, 2000, Chicago, 1999

TEACHING

30 years’ experience in K—12 public and private schools as school psychologist; teacher and coordinator of special education; ESL Harvard U; Boston U; International Institute, Madrid, Spain

PEN-New England prison writing workshop teacher at S. Middlesex Women’s Prison (Pre-Release Facility); fiction, non-fiction and poetry with women prisoners

RESEARCH 
Education Development Center: Adult Literacy Media Project: (ALMA) Researched and wrote collaborative report on infrastructure research for ongoing public television program

Immigrant Adolescents: Doing Ethnography (above)

Dissertation (above) Central American mothers’ acculturation

Degrees

Ed.D. Boston University, Cultural Studies, 1995

M.A. Antioch New England Graduate School, Counseling Psychology, 1981

M.Ed. Keene State College, English, 1972

AB Temple University, English, 1963

Memberships and Awards

  • MacDowell Colony Regional Host

  • MacDowell Colony Fellowship: 1978 

  • Lower East Side Tenement Museum

  • PEN-New England: past Secretary, Freedom to Write Committee, Prison Writing Program Training Committee

  • PEN-New England Annual Book Party, 2004: A Memoir of Collaboration

  • Society for Applied Anthropology

  • Phi Beta Delta International Scholars

Studied with:

  • Grace Paley-short fiction, Fine Arts Work Center

  • Robert Pinsky- poetry, Fine Arts Work Center

  • Maxine Rodburg-non-fiction, Harvard Extension

  • Andrew Holleran-short fiction, Fine Arts Work Center

  • Don Share-poetry, Harvard Extension