Wanda Phipps

Wanda's poems have appeared in over thirty journals including EXQUISITE CORPSE, TRANSFER, RED TAPE, THE WORLD, HANGING LOOSE, SENSITIVE SKIN, LONG SHOT, AGNI, and OBLEK. She's performed her work live all over the U.S. as well as on the CDs STATE OF THE UNION produced by Elliott Sharp, POEMFONE VOL. 1: NEW WORD ORDER and the audio cassette magazines WE and A SHEEP ON THE BUS. Her work can currently been found in two anthologies: THE UNBEARABLES and VALENTINE (also on the World Wide Web). She's also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, AGNI Journal, the National Theatre Fund and the New York State Council on the Arts. Wanda coordinated the Monday Night Reading/Performance Series of The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church for three years and is a founding member and dramaturg of YARA ARTS GROUP (a resident theatre company of LA MAMA E.T.C.). She has also written about performance and experimental theatre for HIGH PERFORMANCE, PAPER , and COVER.