Joanne Zimmerman Mailing Address: 18255 Perth Ave. Homewood, IL. 60430-1615 County: Cook E-mail: jz8136@aol.com Phone: 708-798-8136 Genre: Fiction

Periodical Publications:

• "A Song and a Story," Karamu Spring 2001
• "Buddy," Cottonwood Fall 2000
• "Going Away," Oyez Review, May 1997
• "My Mother and Willie," Skylark, January 1997
• "Coke Date," Shenandoah, Fall 1996
• "The Steep Hill" (anthologized), An Intricate Weave: Women Write About Girls and Girlhood, December 1997

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Forthcoming Publications:

• "Free Bruno," Out of LIne June 2002

Awards, Fellowships, Grants and Honors:

• Illinois Arts Council Award for short fiction
• Daniel Curley Award for Excellence in Fiction

Recent Readings, Performances and Productions:

• Reader, Women & Children First Bookstore, 57th Street Bookstore, Books on Vernon, and the Park Forest Library, 1997

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