Sheila Ascher

Poet, Fiction Writer, Spoken Word Artist

Rockaway Park, NY
New York US
Website: 
www.ascher-straus.com

Author's Bio

           The biography that interests us (myself and Dennis Straus) isn’t the biography that interests everyone. Our idea of biography or autobiography is more like a daily sketchbook and our sketchbook (an autobiography of daily looking and thinking) can be found in our two Green Integer novel/journal volumes (ABC STREET and HANK FOREST'S PARTY) and in our online extension of those volumes, MONICA'S CHRONICLE. Taken together they form an unconventional, entirely outward-looking autobiography of experience.

           The closest we’ve come to sharing our autobiographies before now is in our essay “My (Our) Five” for Exile magazine (43.4).  

           AFTER SHEILA’S DEATH IN 2020 DENNIS ADDED A LONG BIO NOTE ABOUT THEIR LIFE TOGETHER TO HIS LISTING.  PLEASE GO THERE FOR MUCH MORE. 

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Headless World (McPherson & Company, 2022)
,
The Other Planet 30th Anniversary Edition (McPherson & Company, 2018)
,
Hank Forest's Party (Green Integer, 2013)
,
ABC Street (Green Integer, 2002)
,
The Menaced Assassin (McPherson & Company, 1989)
,
Red Moon/Red Lake (McPherson & Company, 1988)
,
The Other Planet (McPherson & Company, 1988)
,
Letter to an Unknown Woman (McPherson & Company, 1979)
Journals:
Central Park
,
Chelsea
,
Chicago Review
,
Confrontation
,
Exile
,
New American Writing
,
New Review of Literature
,
Paris Review
,
Your Impossible Voice
Prizes won: 

Pushcart Prize Anthology, III, Pushcart Press, 1978-79

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Last update: Sep 22, 2022