S.L. (Sandi) Wisenberg Mailing Address: 3752 N. Sheffield Ave. #2-S Chicago 60613 County: Cook Phone: 773/871-5361 e-mail: slwisenberg@sbcglobal.net Genre: Creative nonfiction, Fiction, Poetry

 

Periodical Publications:

The New Yorker, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly Review, Crab Orchard Review, Creative Nonfiction, Lilith, Third Coast, Salon, Cortland Review, New England Review, North American Review, Chicago Review, Tikkun, Moment, Indiana Review, The Sun, Kenyon Review, Bridge, Other Voices, Calyx, StoryQuarterly, others.

Book Publications:

• Essay collection: HOLOCAUST GIRLS: HISTORY, MEMORY & OTHER OBSESSIONS (U of Nebraska P, 2002)
  
• fiction collection: THE SWEETHEART IS IN (TriQuarterly Books, Northwestern U P, 2001)
  
• in anthologies:
  POETRY FROM SOJOURNER: A FEMINIST ANTHOLOGY (U of Illinois P, 2003)
  IN THE MIDDLE OF THE MIDDLE WEST (Indiana U P, 2003)
  WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT? THE FIRST FAT FICTION ANTHOLOGY (Harcourt, 2003)
  CRAFTING THE VERY SHORT STORY: AN ANTHOLOGY OF 100 MASTERPIECES (Prentice-Hall, 2002)
  

Forthcoming Publications:

• SHORT TAKES: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH CONTEMPORARY NONFICTION (Norton, Aug. 2005)
• Poem in Michigan Quarterly Review
  

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Fellowship, Annual Summer Institute on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization, Northwestern University, 2003
• Individual Artist Fellowship, fiction, Illinois Arts Council, 1992 (finalist, creative nonfiction, 2002)
• Residencies: Millay Colony for the Arts, 1986;
  Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1990;
  Ragdale Foundation, 1987, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1997, 2000
• Fellowship stipends, National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminars and Institutes for College Teachers, 1991, 1994, 1999
  Pushcart Prize, 1996
• Writing Fellowship, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA, Oct. 1990 - May 1991
  Media Award, Dade County (FL) Psychological Assn., 1985

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Printers Row Book Fair
  Women & Children First
  Purdue University, Jewish Studies Lecture Series
  Drew University
  Associated Writing Programs conference
  WBEZ-FM, National Public Radio affiliate
  Western Michigan University
  Modern Language Assn. convention
  Miami Book Fair International
  Columbia College, Creative Nonfiction Week
  College of DuPage (IL)
  American Literature Assn., Jewish-American and Holocaust LIterature Symposium
  Jewish Federation of Greater Dallas
  Jewish Book Fairs--Milwaukee, Houston

Recent Workshops:

• Fiction and nonfiction workshops, Highland Park (IL) Community House, 2001-present
• Creative nonfiction workshop, MA in Creative Writing program, Northwestern University, Fall 2003
• Creative nonfiction classes, MA in Writing program, DePaul University, Winter, Spring and Fall 2003; Winter 2004

Present Employment:

• Co-director, MA in Creative Writing program, Northwestern University

Preferred Audience:

• Adults

Willing to travel:

• Yes, anywhere.