As resident playwright at Stage Left Theatre (Chicago), I've written a new play that mixes puppetry, poetry, and surrealism to explore the stories of women who've disappeared throughout time. It's called Witches Vanish, and it'll be included in LeapFest in May and June. Meanwhile, my book I Love You Terribly: Six Plays has just been published by Carnegie Mellon University Press.
Sarah V. Schweig has released her first chapbook, S, and published her poems in publications such as BOMB Magazine, Boston Review, and Painted Bride Quarterly, among others. She recieved the David Craig Austen Memorial Award from Columbia University for her MFA manuscript, was nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and was also a finalist for the Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship (2010). In the spring of 2012, she will begin the Emerging Poets Residency at Poets House in Manhattan.
My book of short stories titled Lingering Tide and Other Stories has been published by Tsar Press in Toronto, Canada, and is available in the U.S. through amazon.com and Small Press Distribution in Berkeley, California. All twelve stories in the book have been published in American literary magazines and several have won awards. I worked on some of the stories in the book while I was in Sewanee and loved my time there. My website address is lathavis.com.
I had a wonderful experience at the conference in 2005, and just wanted to share some happy news about what became of that manuscript that I workshopped with John Casey and Randall Kenan. My first novel, The Firm Outing, will be published by Macmillan/St. Martin's Press in early 2013. Here's the write-up about it in Publishers Weekly. I couldn't be more excited, and just wanted to thank the SWC community for being such a supportive and encouraging place for writers! I'm truly grateful for the encouragement and feedback I received there.