BIO
My writerly
story, such as it is …
Flash: I've been awarded a Summer 2008 fellowship to the Saltonstall
Foundation for the Arts, an artists' colony in Ithaca, NY, where I'll spend
a month working on my second novel.
I was born in
Detroit, grew up in the suburb of Oak Park. I lived in Ann Arbor, first
going to school, then driving bus for the city. I now live in New York with
my lover Teresa Gutierrez, activist, organizer, speaker, writer and
co-director of the International Action Center. I work at New York
University and belong to the clerical workers’ union, AFT Local 3882.
I co-authored We
Won’t Be Slaves: Workfare Workers Organize (1997, IAC: NYC) with
Larry Holmes. I wrote the preface and afterword to The Roots of Lesbian
and Gay Oppression by Bob McCubbin (3d edition, 1993, Worldview: NYC).
My fiction and poetry
have been published online and in print, in Avery, Crate, Blithe
House Quarterly, Blue Fifth Review, Coelacanth, Epiphany,
Facets, failbetter.com, Glass Tesseract, Hamilton
Stone Review, HazMat Literary Review, Maverick, Megaera,
Mississippi Review, Mizna,
Mudlark, muse apprentice guild, New Verse News, The Pedestal, Pindeldyboz, poetz.com,
Samsara Quarterly, Snow Monkey, Tattoo Highway,
Vernacular, and Word Is Bond.
In 2001 and 2003 I
had writing residencies at Norcroft Writing Retreat for Women and the
Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies. Also in 2001, I won a
research/writing grant from the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial
Fund.
In 2006 I attended
the Flanked Women Writers' Conference in Washington, D.C. In 2007 I was
awarded a full scholarship to the first annual Lambda Literary Foundation's
LGBTQ Writers Retreat in Los Angeles, where I studied with Dorothy Allison,
Michael Nava and Katherine V. Forrest.
I am currently
seeking representation for my first novel, Vera's Will. I'm at work on a second novel and a story
collection.
SHELLEY ETTINGER