L.S. Bassen is the winner of the 2009 Atlantic Pacific Press Drama Prize, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship, and has had her poetry and fiction published in many various publications over two decades. She was a Finalist for the 2011 Flannery O’Connor Short Fiction Award. She is a prizewinning, produced, and published playwright (Samuel French, MONTH BEFORE THE MOON, NEXT OF KIN at New York's ATA, to name a few), and commissioned co-author of a WWII memoir by the Scottish bride of Baron Kawasaki. She has an MA in English from CUNY, and an AB in English/Philosophy from Vassar. She has taught public high school and college for three decades at Hofstra University, and the New York Institute of Technology, among others.
