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 RENA is
now on YouTube!
http://pop.youtube.com/user/renaspromise
RENA'S PROMISE:
A Story of Sisters in Auschwitz
(Beacon Press, 1995; Orion-UK,
1996;
Knesebeck (GER) 1998; Japan,
1997;
Turkey, 1999 )
Nominated
for:
The National Book Award
The Jewish American Awards
Awarded
CARNEGIE GRANT
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THE WEEPING BUDDHA
(Akashic Books, 2002)
FINALIST FOR
BEST NORTH AMERICAN
MYSTERY - NERO WOLF AWARDS 2003.
Nominated
for THE EDGAR
THE DUNES OF PILGRIM LAKE
a very creative nonfiction
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heather
dune macadam's bio:
Currently
teaching at SUNY STONY BROOK SOUTHAMPTON and with the Southampton Writers Conference Ms. Macadam
is active in developing writing curriculum that focuses on
sustainability for this new environmentally conscious campus. She
taught as Savannah College of Art and Design for three years,
where she helped to create the Contemporary
Writing Program for both Undergraduate and Graduate studies.. Students from her classes have been
published in The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Savannah
Morning News, The South, to name a few, and
found positions with Nickelodeon and EDGE Magazine. And
that's in just one year!
SUNY Faculty
Ms. Macadam
actually began her career as a performance artist and dancer with
the Martha Graham Contemporary Dance Company. An injury
preemptively ended her calling to the stage, but she began to
write. Her first forays were depressing New York poetry but
eventually she found work with Warner Audio Publishing where she
adapted books-to-tape for both fiction and nonfiction audio books.
Titles included: THE MISTS OF AVALON by Marion Zimmer Bradley, and
THE LEFT HAND OF DARKNESS by Ursula K. LeGuin.
The poetry stopped
somewhere along the time Ms. Macadam discovered she had a voice
(dancers tend not to speak much) since then she has not shut up!
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Her first
short story, "Sky" was published in RACING HOME: STORIES BY
AWARD WINNING NORTH CAROLINA AUTHORS, "A smashing new
collection of fresh fiction from the lauded writers of a
literature-rich state." Ms. Macadam has been published in
numerous magazines and newspapers including: The New York
Times, Newsweek, Marie Claire-AUS, The Guardian, Mail on
Sunday, First Magazine, and The Advocate.
As if writing memoirs, articles, short stories, children’s
books and novels is not enough, Ms. Macadam returned to the
stage in 2000, this time as a playwright. With the help of
mentor and friend, Jules Feiffer, her play DEAR DADANN was
awarded the John Steinbeck/Alden Whitman Award, and named as
finalist in the Tennessee Williams One-Act and the Drury
University One-Act Play Competitions. She has written for the
MATLOCK (ABC), and adapted the BBC radio program EARTHSEARCH
for television, with her then writing partner, Johnny Dawkins,
formerly on STAR TREK-THE NEXT GENERATION.
Writers must be Jacks and Jills of all trades—it is the only way to do
both research on your work and find time to write (unless one
is independently wealthy, or has a patron). To make ends meet,
Ms. Macadam spent seven years working on feature films and MOWs. Films she left her mark on (or that left their mark on
her!) include: LAST OF THE MOHICANS, MR. DESTINY and
NOBLEHOUSE. She has also managed the HAMPTONS INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL (where she organized and stage managed, with the
Artists Rights Foundation’s IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT Tribute),
and assisted producer Kim Snyder (co-producer for “Home for
the Holidays” and “TREVOR”, Academy Award® winning short in
1997), on her award winning documentary, I REMEMBER ME. |
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