Bio


Awards
Artist's Grant in Playwriting, Massachusetts Cultural Council, for full-length play, Kazorkis in Extremis
Best Original Script, American Regional Theatre Award, for full-length play, Gooseberry Tarts
Playwriting Fellowship, Artists Foundation of Massachusetts, for full-length play, The Relations of Paul Le Jeune


Plays

Weaving Woolly Mammoths [full-length]; staged reading at Herring Run ArtsFest of “Huma’s Loom,” (Sept. 2002), “Little Silk Worms” (Sept. 2003), “Oh, Brother” (Sept. 2005); public reading, "The Fall of Fall Reeve," Middleboro Public Library [June 2004], staged reading, Culture*Park’s 4th Annual Short Play Marathon, New Bedford, MA (Oct. 2005]; staged reading of “Huma’s Loom,” the “Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, Peace & Justice Theater Festival”  in three venues on Cape Cod [June, 2005]; production of “Hair Weave” at the New England Academy of Theatre’s NEAT Short Play Festival, New Haven, CT (June, 2005]


Kazorkis in Extremis, full-length; staged readings: NUWorks Program (Northeastern Univ.); CentaStage

      (Boston)Gooseberry Tarts, full-length, production: Theatre One Productions [Middleboro, MA]

The Relations of Paul LeJeune, full-length, production: Playwrights Platform [Boston]
Rapture, full-length, production: Playwrights Platform (Boston)
Alma, one act, staged reading (Boston]; also televised, PBS
The Beast on the Throne, one act, staged reading (Boston)

 

Novels

“The Pittsley County Chronicles”

                Juckets and Swamp Yankees, Infinity Publishers, 2008

                Bog Men, Publish America, 2007

Winterkill, Spinsters Ink, 2009

Strumin’ the Banjo Moon, ms. completed, 2009

 

Author

Joyce Walsh has a Bachelor’s Degree (English) from New York University and a Master’s Degree (Psychology) from Harvard University. She has worked extensively in the Department of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and was the Managing Editor of Cancer Causes and Control, an international journal of cancer epidemiology. She has published numerous non-fiction articles and is a free-lance editor specializing in epidemiology and public health.  Co-founder of Authors Without Borders  (web link to come)