Issue #20 (2011) PDF - myweb - Long Island University

directed the world premiere of The Terrorist at the National Center for the Performing Arts (NCPA)
in Mumbai where he also lectured & conducted a playwrights‘ workshop. In June 2009 he lectured
on Jerzy Grotowski, Judith Malina & the Living Theatre & Alternative Theatre in the US under the
auspices of the Theatre of the Eighth Day at the Malta International Theatre Festival in Poznan,
Poland. He was invited to reprise the lecture in January 2011 as well as collaborate on a theatre
project about climate change & an alien invasion with Teatr Palmera Eldritcha in Poznan. He has an
MFA from the Yale School of Drama in Playwriting & Dramatic Literature. He was the winner of
a Play Commission in Jewish Theatre from NFJC (for Jersey Nights at Medicine Show), a NYFA
Playwriting Fellowship, two ASCAP Awards, a Puffin Foundation grant & co-winner of an NEA
Media Arts grant for the opera Dream Beach (with Michael Sahl). His plays & musicals have been
performed & read at La MaMa ETC., (The House of Nancy Dunn with Steve Weisberg & Andy Craft),
Playwrights Horizons, Symphony Space, Medicine Show (Poetry Class With Serial Killer), Kraine
Theater (Cocaine Dreams) & The Living Theatre, & broadcast over WNYC & WBAI FM.
Playwriting Residencies include Fundacion Valparaiso, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
(VCCA), & the Ragdale Foundation. His work has appeared in The Quarterly, The Drama Review, slavic
and east european performance, New York Theater Review (anthology), theater2k.com (online), Cultural
Logic, Socialism and Democracy, Cover, And Then, Home Planet News, & Downtown Brooklyn, & in the poetry
anthologies, Off the Cuffs & Long Island Sounds. / G. J. Racz is Associate Professor of Foreign
Languages & Literature at the Brooklyn Campus, Vice-President of the American Literary
Translators Association (ALTA), & review editor for Translation Review. He won the 2010 Alicia
Gordon Award for Word Artistry in Translation from the American Translators Association (ATA).
/ Leslie Anne Rexach is working toward her bachelor‘s degree with a major in English at the
Brooklyn Campus. / Beatriz Alzate Rodriguez completed her BS at Columbia University School
of Engineering & her MS at New York Institute of Technology. Formerly an engineer at Unisys
Corporation, she now teaches math & art at Cobble Hill High School in Brooklyn. She is pursuing a
second master‘s degree in the Brooklyn Campus English Department‘s Creative Writing MFA
program. / Lisa Rogal is working toward her graduate degree in the Brooklyn Campus English
Department‘s Creative Writing MFA program. / Desiree Rucker is working toward her MFA in
Creative Writing at the Brooklyn Campus. / P. J. Salber is an Associate Professor & the
Coordinator of User Services in the Salena Library at the Brooklyn Campus. His work has appeared
in a number of little magazines including Downtown Brooklyn. / Micah Savaglio is an alumnus (B.A.,
2006) of the University of Milwaukee Wisconsin & is now working toward his MFA in Creative
Writing at the Brooklyn Campus. He is coeditor of By the Overpass: A Journal of Writing and Art. /
Michael Sohn has been teaching in the Brooklyn Campus English Department since 1997. He is a
full-time Instructor, Mentor & Faculty Development Coordinator in the English Department‘s
Writing Program. His poems have appeared in Downtown Brooklyn & Zen Monster. A critical article,
―An Incoherent Collection André du Bouchet's L'Incohérence‖ appeared in Curious Collectors, Collected
Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study (Nhora Lucia Serrano & Janelle A. Schwartz, eds.; Cambridge
Scholars Press; 2010). / Jean Verthein works in the Brooklyn Campus Office of Student Support
Services as a counselor specializing in students with disabilities. / Sarah Wallen is working toward
her MFA in Creative Writing at the Brooklyn Campus. / Lewis Warsh is the author of numerous
books of poetry, fiction, & autobiography, most recently Inseparable: Poems 1995-2005 (2008) & A
Place in the Sun (2010). Professor in the Brooklyn Campus English Department, he is Director of the
Creative Writing MFA program. He is also editor & publisher of United Artists Books
(unitedartistsbooks.com). / An alumna (MFA, 2010) of the English Department‘s graduate creative
writing program, Tejan Green Waszak tutors in the Writing Center & teaches as an adjunct
professor in the English Department. / Constance Woo teaches undergraduate courses at the
Brooklyn Campus & graduate courses at NYU in the joint master‘s program of The Palmer School
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