BIOGRAPHY

A longtime project, Violet Fire, for which she wrote the libretto and composer Jon Gibson wrote the score, received its world premiere at the National Theater, Belgrade (Serbia) in July 2006, and will have its US premiere at BAM's Next Wave Festival in New York on October 18-21, 2006. Violet Fire is inspired by the life of visionary inventor Nikola Tesla, and the premiere coincides with the 150th anniversary of his birth. Other dramatic projects she has written have been produced by InterAct Theatre, Philadelphia, and New American Radio. Her short fiction has appeared in Exquisite Corpse, Washington Square, Phoebe, First Intensity and elsewhere, and has been featured in Writing Aloud, a short-story performance series. She is at work on a new opera project with composer Kamran Ince, scheduled to premiere in Boston in 2008.

She contributes reviews and articles as a corresponding editor to Art in America. Her arts writing has also appeared in AmericanStyle, ARTnews, Art on Paper, Attache, Dance, High Performance, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New Art Examiner, Philadelphia Magazine, the Public Art Review and other publications. She has written exhibition essays on the work of many artists, including Tom Judd, Willie Cole, Beth Ames Swartz, Ilan Sandler, Mildred Greenberg, Amelia Rudolph (Project Bandaloop), Peter d'Agostino and Jude Tallichet, Pedro Ospina and others.

Her writing has been supported by three Individual Art Critic Fellowships and a Special Opportunity Stipend in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, by the Five County Arts Fund and the International Friends of Transformative Art among others. She has spoken and participated in numerous panels and juries at schools and univerisities. She is a member of the International Association of Art Critics and the Working Writers' Group, a peer-criticism writers' group. She works as Curator of the Galleries at The Gershman Y, a center for arts and culture in Philadelphia.