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SIBBIE O’SULLIVAN enjoys writing in many genres, including poetry, fiction and drama. O’Sullivan’s first theatre piece was a collaboration in l984 with director Ruth Maleczech, cofounder of the Mabou Mines Theatre Company of New York City, and the Washington Project for the Arts that involved dramatizing O’Sullivan’s poems. Shortly after that, O’Sullivan wrote and directed Isabel-Lee Malone in a one-woman play, THE LANGUAGE OF THE DEAD: A STICHOMYTHIA, which was performed at The Lansburgh’s Cultural Center in Washington,D.C. Other artistic ventures in the l980s include performing with Sabotage Poets, a collective of writers that included Reuben Jackson and Silvana Straw; serving as a Humanities Scholar for the D.C. Community Humanities Council; and organizing readings in the Washington, D.C. metro area. O’Sullivan’s VOICES FROM THE STRAW: POEMS AND MONOLOGUES REFERENCING
THE GREAT WITCH HUNT was performed at the District of Columbia Arts Center (DCAC) in l995. Her play THE BODY, which received a Works-In-Progress Grant in Playwriting from the Maryland State Arts Council,was performed by Sarah Pleydell at the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of
Maryland, College Park, MD. in 2004.

O’SULLIVAN’S POEMS have appeared in many publications, among them West Branch;The Laurel Review; Nimrod; Gargoyle; Dreamworks; South Florida Poetry Review; New Delta Review; Poet and Critic; Calapooya Collage; Westminster Review; Poets On; Apalachee Quarterly; Sou’Wester;Hubbub; Zone 3, and WordWrights. Awards in poetry include the Mademoiselle College Poetry Prize; the Judith Siegal Pearson Poetry Prize, and the Billee Murray Denny Poetry Prize, and a grant from the Maryland State Arts Council. O’Sullivan has given numerous poetry readings in the D.C. Metro area and elsewhere, including The Limbo Lounge in New York City; d.c. space; Washington Musica Viva; Georgetown University; The Corcoran School of Art; The Levine School; The Art Barn; The Writer’s Center, and IOTA.

In l989 she received the ArtScape Literary Arts Award for Fiction from the City of Baltimore for her chapbook of stories, THE WINDOW AND OTHER STORIES. In that year as well, O’Sullivan was awarded the Grant for Fiction Writing from the Maryland State Arts Council. Her nonfiction essay ”Out of the Loop”
was cited as a Notable Essay of the Year in The Best American Essays 200l, Robert Atwan, editor. In 2003, composer John Stephens commissioned O’Sullivan to write the libretto for his opera The Devil in the Flesh.

In the summer of 2005, O’Sullivan’s LITTLE WHEEL, a CD of poems, was released. Selected as Best Poetry CD 2005 by the Montserrat Review, LITTLE WHEEL is a selection of l3 of O’Sullivan’s poems read by 7 different readers including award-winning poet Rose Solari, and actress Sarah Pleydell. Poet
Josh Weiner says of LITTLE WHEEL: “You won’t hear the convention of ‘spoken word’ on Sibbie O’Sullivan’s disc, but rather the language spoken, the language of poetry...O’Sullivan’s poems travel distances to make musical and rhetorical shapes that hang with pleasure in the ear.”

O’Sullivan received a Ph.D. in American Literature in l986. An award-winning teacher, O’Sullivan is Senior Lecturer in the University Honors Program at the University of Maryland, College Park. Sibbie
O’Sullivan 2700 Arvin Street Wheaton, MD 20902; phone: 30l/942-0245;
sibbie@umd.edu; http://www.sibbieosullivan.com