- Wanda Phipps
Wanda Phipps (born
November 7 ,1960 ) is a writer living inBrooklyn ,New York . She was born inWashington, D.C. and studied theater and English literature atBarnard College ofColumbia University in New York City, acting atAmerican Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA and poetry at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO.She wrote "Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems" ISBN 1-932360-31-X (
Soft Skull Press ), the chapbooks "Lunch Poems" (Boog Literature), " [http://www.spdbooks.org/Details.asp?BookID=80021 Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets] " (Situations), " [http://www.fauxpress.com/e/phipps/index.html After the Mishap] " (Faux Press e-chapbooks) and the CD-Rom " [http://www.fauxpress.com/b/ph.htm Zither Mood] " (Faux Press). She also co-authored "Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia" ISBN 0-930407-57-1 (Parabola). Her poems have been published over 100 times in journals such as "Agni", "Exquisite Corpse", "The World", "Hanging Loose", "Sensitive Skin", "Long Shot", and the webzines [http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/however/v1_3_2000/current/new-writing/phipps.html How2: Contemporary Innovative Writing by Women] , [http://poeticvoices.com/Poetry/0001poetry.htm Poetic Voices] , [http://www.milkmag.org/poetry3.htm#Wanda%20PHIPPS milkmag] , Jack, $lavery: Cyberzine of the Arts, The East Village, Shampoo and [http://depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/bkrvw/issues/1999/wanda.html Brooklyn Review Online] .She performed her work across the U.S. as well as on [http://www.papertigermedia.com/cdroms/pt01.htm papertiger] an Australian CD-ROM journal, the CDs [http://www.emfmedia.org/catalog/em128.html State Of The Union] (EMF) produced by Elliott Sharp, [http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000033SF/ New Word Order] Compilation CD, Tomato/Rhino/WEA Records and the audio cassette journal We Magazine. Her work can be found in the anthologies "Oblek: Writing From The New Coast", " [http://bookstore.autonomedia.org/index.php?main_page=pubs_product_book_info&products_id=157 Unbearables] " (Autonomedia), " [http://www.thing.net/~sabina/ Valentine] ", "Verses That Hurt: Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets" ISBN 0-312-15191-8 (St. Martin's Press), and "The Portable Boog Reader" (Boog Literature).
She was a contributing editor for the Internet Artszine [http://www.bigbridge.org/Site/Text/Editors_Note.html Big Bridge] and for the New York City-based literary magazine LUNGFULL! and was a co-recipient of a Meet the Composer/International Creative Collaborations Program Grant. She also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Agni, The National Theatre Translation Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Her translations with Virlana Tkacz of Ukrainian poetry and Buryat shamans’ chants and songs have appeared in several journals, anthologies and collections including: "Luna", "Agni", "Shaman’s Drum", "Two Lines: A Journal of Translation", "From Three Worlds: New Writing from Ukraine" (Glas/Zephyr), "A Kingdom of Fallen Statues: Poems and Essays by Oksana Zabuzhko" (Wellspring), "Indian Ink" by Ludmyla Taran (Corvus Albus, Kiev), "Leading Contemporary Poets: An International Anthology" (Poetry International), "Worlds of Visions International Anthology", "Eastern Visions Anthology" and "Ten Years of Poetry from the Yara Theatre Workshops at
Harvard ".She coordinated the Monday Night Reading/Performance Series at [http://www.poetryproject.com The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church] in New York City for three years and ran the 1998/99 season of their Friday Night series as well.
She was a founding member of [http://www.brama.com/yara/index.html Yara Arts Group] (a resident theatre company of La Mama E.T.C.) and collaborated on numerous theatrical productions with them which have been presented in Ukraine and
Siberia as well as in New York City at La Mama, E.T.C.She was a dramaturgical assistant for
The Wooster Group and has written about poetry, performance, experimental theatre and the arts forTime Out New York ,About.com , [http://www.papermag.com Paper Magazine] ,High Performance Magazine , NYC Metro, BoogLit, Cover Arts New York and The Poetry Project Newsletter.ee also
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