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Jessica Hagedorn
Biography
Jessica Hagedorn, who is the Parsons Family Professor of
Creative Writing at Long Island University in Brooklyn, was
born and raised in the Philippines and came to the United
States in her early teens. Her novels include
Dream Jungle; The Gangster of Love, which was
nominated for the Irish Times International Fiction Prize;
and Dogeaters, which was nominated for a National Book
Award.
Hagedorn is also the author of Danger and Beauty,
a collection of poetry and prose; and the editor of Charlie
Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian American
Fiction and Charlie Chan is Dead 2: At Home in the
World. Her poetry, plays and prose have been anthologized
widely.
Recent work in theatre inlcude the musical play, Most
Wanted, in collaboration with composer Mark Bennett and
director Michael Greif, at the La Jolla Playhouse; Fe In
The Desert and Stairway to Heaven for Campo Santo
in San Francisco; and the stage adaptation of Dogeaters,
which was presented at La Jolla Playhouse and at the NYSF/Public
Theatre (director: Michael Greif); at SIPA Performance Space
in Los Angeles; and at the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver
City (director: Jon Lawrence Rivera).
Upcoming theatre projects: The 2007 Manila premiere of Dogeaters,
directed by Bobby Garcia; and Three Vampires, a multimedia
collaboration with Ping Chong.
ACADEMIC SPECIALTIES & RESEARCH INTERESTS
Creative Writing (Poetry & Fiction)
Playwriting & Screenwriting
Multimedia Performance
Post-Colonial Literature
Contemporary Asian American Literature
TEACHING
MFA Creative Writing Program, Long Island University--Brooklyn
Campus
MFA Creative Writing Program, Columbia University
Graduate Playwriting Program, Yale University
Asian/Pacific American Studies Institute, New York University
MFA Creative Writing Program, New York University
Undergraduate Creative Writing Program, Bryn Mawr
FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS & AWARDS
Lucille Lortel Foundation Playwrights' Fellowship
Guggenheim Fiction Fellowship
Sundance Theater Lab Residency
UCross/Sundance Playwrights Residency
Sundance Screenwriters' Lab Residency
Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Creative Writing Fellowship
National Book Award Fiction Finalist for Dogeaters
National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship
NEA-TCG Playwrights' Residency Fellowship
BOARD MEMBERSHIPS
The Jerome Foundation, the Board of Trustees of PEN, the Board
of Directors of the National Book Awards Foundation, the Advisory
Board of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, the Advisory
Board of Amerasia Journal at UCLA, and on the Editorial Board
of Random House's Modern Library.
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