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2007 Playwriting Contest Winners’ Bios 1st Place - “She’s Wonderful” by Ruth Coe Chambers Ruth Coe Chambers is the author of a novel, The Chinaberry Album, and has published short stories and articles in various magazines. She has recently completed a second novel and is at work on a third. She has also written two plays, “Changing Places” and “She’s Wonderful”. A graduate in Psychology from CA State University, Fresno, she is listed in the current edition of Marquis Who’s Who of American Women. “She’s Wonderful” gives a telling glimpse into the lives of three women - a daughter, her mother and a neighbor - as they deal with present-day duty and past demons. Jeanie, twenty-nine, cares for a deceiving mother who’s battling lung cancer, while her Jewish neighbor, Marissa, a holocaust survivor, is still haunted by fear and suffering. But even though Marissa suffered a personal hell at the hands of the Nazis, she’s still unable to summon empathy for her wonderful, enduring African-American cleaning lady. The women show that we all have holes in our lives that we try to fill - with love, motivation, ambition, possessions, good works and obsessions. In Marissa’s case, the hardest part is realizing the hole is there, driving many of her feelings and actions.
2nd Place - “Fly Me to the Moon” by Philip T. Carter Philip T. Carter has been writing short fiction four years. “Fly Me to the Moon” is based on his short story of the same title, and is his first play. Two of his stories received honorable mentions and a notable story award in the 2004 and 2005 Florida First Coast Writers’ Festival’s Page Edwards Short Fiction contests. His three-story portfolio was a 2005 Dana Awards portfolio finalist (winner, two mentions, seven other finalists), and each story was a Dana short fiction semifinalist. Another of his stories received a short-short fiction honorable mention in the 2006 22nd New Millennium Writings Awards, and another was a New Millennium short fiction semifinalist. He is a retired attorney with an undergraduate degree from Brown University and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School.
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