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 Listen to Jean read this poem → Fall 2001
• 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