L. Shapley Bassen

Poet, Fiction Writer

East Greenwich, RI
Rhode Island US
Email: 
lsbassen@gmail.com
Website: 
lsbassen.com/

Author's Bio

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. 

2014 novel Summer of the Long Knives (Typhoon Media-Signal 8 Press)

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/156...)

Fiction editor at https://www.craftliterary.com/.

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Publications & Prizes

Anthology:
Songs From Unsung Worlds (Birkhauser, 1985)
Journals:
25th LIU Annual Poetry Awards Catalog
,
California State Poetry Quarterly
,
Languageandculture.net
,
Melusine: Woman in the 21st Century
,
Minnetonka Review
,
Nexus
,
The American Scholar
,
The Cherry Blossom Review
,
The English Journal
,
The Externalist
,
The Vassar Quarterly
,
The Write Room
,
Visions International
,
Without Haloes
Prizes won: 

"Portrait of a Giant Squid" was the First Place winner in the 2015 Austin Chronicle Short Story Contest. 2009 APP Drama Prize for comedy, THE END OF SHAKESPEARE & CO. , a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship for subsequently published 1st novel SUMMER OF THE LONG KNIVES [2014, Signal 8 Press], Paul Green Playwrighting Prize for THE BARE-BREASTED VOLLEYBALL PLAYER.

Personal Favorites

Favorite authors: 
William Blake, George Orwell, Edith Wharton, Selden Edwards, Jacqueline Winspear, Isaac Asimov, Emily Dickinson, Jane Gardam
What I'm reading now: 
The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim, When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
No
Prefers to work with: 
Adults
Fluent in: 
English
Born in: 
NYC, NY
New York
Raised in: 
NYC, NY
New York
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Last update: Jun 04, 2023