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name: Sybil Rosen
about: I have always written. From the time I was five and typing poems and stories on my father's old Underwood typewriter, I have been drawn to words. Words took me to the theater first, where I began to learn the art and science of wearing someone else's shoes. In 1979 I began to write plays, an experience I can only describe as "coming home." Since that time I have written short plays, long plays, poetry, essays, theater reviews, narration for documentary films,screenplays, a novel, short stories and a memoir. "Brink of Devotion," a full-length play, was a participant in the Sundance Playwriting Lab in Provo, Utah. A ten-minute play, "Duet for Bear and Dog" was published in the first "Take Ten: A Ten-Minute Play Anthology" by Viking Press and I have always written. From the time I was five and typing poems and stories on my father's old Underwood typewriter, I have been drawn to words. Words took me to the theater first, where I began to learn the art and science of wearing someone else's shoes. In 1979 I began to write plays, an experience I can only describe as "coming home." Since that time I have written short plays, long plays, poetry, essays, theater reviews, narration for documentary films,screenplays, a novel, short stories and a memoir. "Brink of Devotion," a full-length play, was a participant in the Sundance Playwriting Lab in Provo, Utah. A ten-minute play, "Duet for Bear and Dog" was published in the first "Take Ten: A Ten-Minute Play Anthology" by Viking Press and has received over 100 productions world-wide. "Speed of Light," a novel for young adults published by Atheneum (Simon &amp; Schuster), won The Sydney Taylor Award for Older Readers, and was nominated for The Mark Twain Award. It was translated into German and published Verlag Urachhaus. A memoir about life in a tree house with Texas music legend Blaze Foley, "Living in the Woods in a Tree" was published by the University of North Texas Press, #2in their "Lives of Musicians Series." Searching for memories of Blaze while writing the memoir, I clocked over 30,000 miles on Greyhound buses. "Riding the Dog" is a collection of nine short works of fiction that all take place on the bus. The writing was fed by the people I met, the stories they told me, and events I witnessed that would not let me go. ...more