MARIA BRANDT teaches English and Creative Writing at Monroe Community College in Rochester, New York, where she lives with her son. Her plays have been finalists in NYC, Boston, Buffalo, DC, Reno, and London; read in Los Angeles, Valdez, Fort Lauderdale, and Rochester; performed in Boston, NYC, and Rochester; and published by InDigest, Shark Reef, and Chamber Four. Maria also has published an essay with VIDA and short fiction with Rock & Sling, Arts & Letters, upstreet, The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, Mom Egg, and The Lindenwood Review. Her novella All the Words won the 2014 Grassic Short Novel Prize and was published by Evening Street Press in 2015, and her collection NY Plays was published by Heartland Plays, also in 2015. Maria currently is editing her friend Pam Mills’ forthcoming posthumous memoir Kamastone with Jaded Ibis Press, and she is a founding member of Straw Mat Writers, with whom she co-authored FourPlay for the 2014 and Shitty Lives for the 2015 First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.
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