BIO

Donna Spector's play Golden Ladder was published in Women Playwrights: The Best Plays of 2002 (Smith & Kraus), as were scenes from that play in The Best Stage Scenes of 2002 (Smith & Kraus). Her poems, stories and monologues have appeared in The Greensboro Review, Poet & Critic, Sycamore Review, Plainswoman, Sunrust, The Paterson Literary Review, Gaia, The Bellingham Review, The South Florida Poetry Review, Journal of New Jersey Poets, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Blue Unicorn, Connecticut River Review, Poet Lore, Black River Review, Poetic Space, The Hiram Poetry Review, Mudfish, Notre Dame Review (forthcoming) and in anthologies of winning writers in the Teachers USA competition, the Chester H. Jones Foundation National Poetry Competition, the Emily Dickinson Award Anthology, Monologues for Women by Women and Even More Monologues for Women by Women (Heinemann), In the West of Ireland (Enright House), XY Files: Poems on the Male Experience (Sherman Asher), At Our Core: Women Writing about Power (Papier-Mache Press) and Anthology of Creative Works, 1994 NEH-Spetses Fellows (Ovid's Metamorphoses: Myth in Its Physical and Poetic Landscapes).

Winner of the Masters Poetry Prize and a semi-finalist for the Brittingham Poetry Prize, Emily Dickinson Poetry Award, Nimrod Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, Chester H. Jones poetry competition and a finalist for the National Poetry Book Award, May Swenson Poetry Award, Snake Nation Press Poetry Award, Akron Poetry Prize, Paumanok Poetry Award, San Diego Poets Press American Book Series, she has received two N.E.H. grants to study in Greece. A program of her poems recently aired on Australian National Radio.

Ms. Spector's plays have appeared Off Broadway, Off Off Broadway, regionally and in Canada, Ireland and Greece. Her play Golden Ladder ran Off Broadway in 2002, as did her first play, Another Paradise in 1986. She has taught world literature, French, drama and creative writing at the high school and college levels in California, New York and New Jersey.