Janet Desaulniers Mailing Address: 1508 Florence Avenue Evanston, IL 60201 County: Cook Phone: 847.475.1809 e-mail: jdesaul@comcast.net Genre: Fiction

 

Periodical Publications:

Remember Winston Churchill, telophase 4 (November 2003).
Mothers Without Children, Glimmer Train (Summer 1999 Issue 31)
Roll, New England Review (Volume 18, No. 4, Fall 1997).
After Rosa Parks, Ploughshares (Winter 95-96).
---reprinted in Breaking Into Print : Early Stories and Insights into Getting Published, ed., DeWitt Henry (Beacon Press Jan 2000)
Never Ever Always, Ploughshares (Fall 93)
The Good Fight, The New Yorker (12/18/89)
Where We All Should Have Been, The New Yorker (8/7/89)
Everyone is Wearing a Hat, The New Yorker (10/13/88)
---performed by Bright Arrow Theater Company, Pasadena Playhouse/Los Angeles (September 2003)
---performed by Bright Arrow Theater Company/Writer's Voice Theater/Chicago (September/October 1996)
---performed by City Lit Theater Company/Live Bait Theater/Chicago (May/June 1989)
The Next Day, TriQuarterly 67 (Fall, 1986)
Pears, The North American Review (March 1984)
---reprinted in Four Minute Fictions, ed., Robley Wilson (Word Beat Press)
Age, Ploughshares (Vol. 8, No. 4)
---reprinted in New Age (Aug 1983);
---reprinted in The Pushcart Prize VIII (1983-4 ed);
---reprinted in The Ploughshares Reader: New Fiction for the Eighties, ed., DeWitt Henry (Pushcart Press 1985);
---reprinted in Love Stories for the Time Being, ed., Bill Henderson (Pushcart Press 1987), Japanese edition (Hayakawa Publishing 1989).
A Late Show, The New Yorker (6/23/80)

Book Publications:

• WHAT YOU'VE BEEN MISSING, (October 2004); University of Iowa Press.

Forthcoming Publications:

• "Who Knows More Than You" in Chelsea, Dec.2004
  

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

2004 John Simmons Short Fiction Award
2003 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship Finalist
2002 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship Finalist
2000 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship
1999 Glimmer Train Very Short Fiction Award/First Prize
1996 Cohen Award for best short story in volume year of Ploughshares
1996 Work cited among 100 Distinguished Stories in The Best American Short Stories
1994 Work cited among 100 Distinguished Stories in The Best American Short Stories
1994 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship Finalist
1994 Selection for IAC/ALA Statewide Reading Series
1992 NEA Literature Fellowship
1992 Emerging Fiction Writer of Illinois--Poets and Writers' Exchange Program
1992 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship
1989 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship
1987 Illinois Arts Council Literary Award
1985 Illinois Arts Council Literature Fellowship
1984 Work included in The Pushcart Prize VIII, nominated by Gordon Lish
1983 Henfield/Transatlantic Review Award
1983 James Michener/Copernicus Society Fellowship for Work in Progress
1983 nomination for CCLM/GE Young Writer Award

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

University of Missouri-Kansas City
Kansas City Art Institute
Kansas City Public Library
Women and Children First bookstore, Chicago
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Twin Cities Book Festival, Minneapolis
Left Bank Books, St. Louis
Martha Merrill's Bookshop, Racine, WI
Ohio State University
Borders books, Columbus, OH
Prairie Lights books, Iowa City

Recent Workshops:

I've taught writing for over 25 years: to prisoners, the elderly, literary and literacy groups, Chicago schoolchildren and teachers, and to graduate and undergraduate students, most recently in the MFA in Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where I was the inaugural Chair and and an Associate Professor.

Present Employment:

• Associate Professor
  MFA in Writing program
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Preferred Audience:

• Any

Willing to travel:

• Yes