L.S. Bassen was a 2011 Flannery O'Connor Award finalist and is a fiction editor for Prick of the Spindle. Her play The End of Shakespeare & Co. was the winner of the 2009 Atlantic Pacific Drama Prize, and she won a Mary Robert Rinehart Fellowship for German Sabbath (published in 2014 as Summer of the Long Knives), about the successful assassination of Adolf Hitler. She has published in many print and online publications, including Kenyon Review and American Scholar. A produced and published playwright, commissioned co-author of a WWII memoir, L.S. Bassen is a native New Yorker and Vassar grad married for four decades and now living in Rhode Island. Texture published Bassen's Lives of Crime in 2014.
Read an interview with Bassen and her collaborator, artist Mike Stanko, here:
http://twocitiesreview.com/2015/04/interview-with-l-s-bassen-and-mike-stanko/.
For more on L.S. Bassey, visit her website: www.lsbassen.com.