Sample Journalism & Essays

Book Chapters & Academic Writing

• “Rose” — a chapter from Shakespeare Behind Bars
  Republished in Essays on Teaching, Dover Thrift Editions
  2013
• Booking it Beyond the Big House
  Interrupted Life, University of California Press
  January 2010
• Reconsidering Sacred Spaces
  Performing New Lives: Reflections on Prison Theatre in the United States, Jessica Kingsley Press
  2010
  Watch: Performing New Lives on YouTube →
• The Memory We Call Home
  The Best Women’s Travel Writing, Travelers’ Tales
  2008
• Beyond Prison Education
  PMLA
  Summer 2008
  An educator’s response →
• Texts as Teachers: Shakespeare Behind Bars and Changing Lives Through Literature
  Arts and Societal Learning, Josie Bass
  2007
• Eight Things I Learned in the Belly of the Whale
  Representative American Speeches 2005–6, HW Wilson Co.
  2006
• Family Drama
  Topic Magazine
  Fall 2004
• Brutal Beauty: The Poetry of Pam Bernard
  MainStreet Rag
  Spring 2003
• The Power of Words or Light in the Darkness
  Prison Writings, ed. Danine Farquharson
• The Forgotten Minority
  Human Rights Abuses Against Women, Rutgers University Press
  2001
• Throw the Book at Them
  The Book Group Book, Chicago Review Press
  1995, 2000

Poetry & Plays

• The Iraq Monologues
  Performed at Middlesex Community College
  2007
• Getting Well
  OncoLink Reading Room
  2003
• Making Chicken Soup
  OncoLink Reading Room
  2003
• In the Biopsy Room
  OncoLink Reading Room
  2003
• Baseball
  The Mid America Poetry Review
  2002
• My Mother’s Cancer
  Out of Line
  2002
• Remembering Chemotherapy
  Poetry Motel
  2001
• Winter in Texas
  RedneckReview.com
  Fall 2001
  Listen to Jean read this poem →
• The Boost
  Out of Line
  Fall 2001
• Breast Surgeon I & II
  Phoebe: A Feminist Journal
  Fall 2001
• In the Mirror · At Synagogue · The Language of Cancer
  Red River Review
  May 2001
• After Chemotherapy
  Sojourner
  March 2001