Printable view of L. Shapley Bassen

Listed as:

Poet, Fiction Writer

Public address:

East Greenwich, RI

Rhode Island US

Email:

lsbassen@gmail.com

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... [2])

Fiction editor at https://www.craftliterary.com/ [3].

WEBSITE: https://lsbassen.com/ [4]

https://www.facebook.com/ShapleyLoisBass... [5]

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lois-bassen-... [6]

Gives readings:

Yes

Travels for readings:

No

In which languages are you fluent?:

English

Favorite authors:

William Blake, George Orwell, Edith Wharton, Selden Edwards, Jacqueline Winspear, Isaac Asimov, Emily Dickinson, Jane Gardam

Born in:

NYC, NY

New York

Raised in:

NYC, NY

New York

Website:

http://lsbassen.com/ [7]

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.

What I'm reading now:

The Cabinet by Un-Su Kim

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut

Prefers to work with:

Adults