Wanda Phipps
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Brooklyn
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, New York
New York
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. She was born in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
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and studied theater and English literature at Barnard College
Barnard College
Barnard College is a private women's liberal arts college and a member of the Seven Sisters. Founded in 1889, Barnard has been affiliated with Columbia University since 1900. The campus stretches along Broadway between 116th and 120th Streets in the Morningside Heights neighborhood in the borough...
of Columbia University
Columbia University
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in New York City, acting at American 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
Soft Skull Press
Soft Skull Press is an independent publisher founded by Sander Hicks in 1992, and run by Richard Eoin Nash from 2001 to 2009. In 2007, Nash sold Soft Skull to Counterpoint LLC, where it continues to function as a division of the press...
), the chapbooks Lunch Poems (Boog Literature), Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets (Situations), After the Mishap (Faux Press e-chapbooks) and the CD-Rom Zither Mood (Faux Press). She also co-authored Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia ISBN 0-930407-57-1 (Parabola
Parabola (magazine)
Parabola: Where Spiritual Traditions Meet, whose founder and editor was D.M. Dooling, began publishing in 1976 as a quarterly magazine on the subjects of mythology and the world's religious and cultural traditions. It is published by The Society for the Study of Myth and Tradition, a not-for-profit...
). 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 How2: Contemporar y Innovative Writing by Women, Poetic Voices, milkmag, Jack, $lavery: Cyberzine of the Arts, The East Village, Shampoo and Brooklyn Review Online.
She performed her work across the U.S. as well as on papertiger an Australian CD-ROM journal, the CDs State Of The Union (EMF) produced by Elliott Sharp, 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, Unbearables (Autonomedia), 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 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
Virlana Tkacz
Virlana Tkacz is the founding director of the Yara Arts Group, a resident company at the world-renown La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York. She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in theatre directing...
of Ukrainian
Ukrainian language
Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....
poetry and Buryat
Buryats
The Buryats or Buriyads , numbering approximately 436,000, are the largest ethnic minority group in Siberia and are mainly concentrated in their homeland, the Buryat Republic, a federal subject of Russia...
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 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 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
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
and Siberia
Siberia
Siberia is an extensive region constituting almost all of Northern Asia. Comprising the central and eastern portion of the Russian Federation, it was part of the Soviet Union from its beginning, as its predecessor states, the Tsardom of Russia and the Russian Empire, conquered it during the 16th...
as well as in New York City at La Mama, E.T.C.
She was a dramaturgical assistant for The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group
The Wooster Group is a New York City-based experimental theater company known for creating numerous original dramatic works. It gradually emerged during 1975-1980 from Richard Schechner's The Performance Group and took its name in 1980...
and has written about poetry, performance, experimental theatre and the arts for Time Out New York, About.com
About.com
About.com is an online source for original information and advice. It is written in English, and is aimed primarily at North Americans. It is owned by The New York Times Company....
, Paper Magazine, High Performance Magazine
High Performance Magazine
High Performance was a quarterly arts magazine founded in 1978 and published until 1997. Its editorial mission was to provide support and a critical context for new, innovative and unrecognized work in the arts....
, NYC Metro, BoogLit, Cover Arts New York and The Poetry Project Newsletter.