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Slow Step and Dance
by William Borden
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William
Borden
William Borden is a novelist, playwright, poet, and essayist. His novel, Superstoe, was recently republished by Orloff Press. Superstoe was first published in the U.S. by Harper & Row in 1968 and in England by Victor Gollancz in 1967. His short stories have won the PEN Syndicated Fiction Prize and The Writers Voice Fiction Contest and been published in numerous anthologies and magazines. His poem, Eurydice’s Song, with monotypes by Douglas Kinsey, was published in 1999 by Bayeux Arts, Calgary, and St. Andrew’s Press, Laurinberg, NC.
His poems have appeared in over 100 magazines and anthologies and in a chapbook, Slow Step and Dance. His plays have won over 80 national playwriting competitions and have had over 280 productions, at Actors Theatre of Louisville and in New York, Los Angeles, India, South Africa, Spain, Canada, Germany, Norway, and elsewhere. The film adaptation of his play, The Last Prostitute, starring Sonia Braga and produced by Universal Studios, was shown on Lifetime Television and in Europe and is on video. His play Reunion was filmed for theatrical release by Darinka Productions and has been shown in New York, Paris, London, Croatia, Romania, and Wales.
He has received play commissions from Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Science Museum of Minnesota, and the University of North Dakota, and he has been awarded a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, a Minnesota Region 2 Individual Artist Grant, a Minnesota State Arts Board Career Opportunity Grant, and a Minnesota Region 2 Arts Council Distinguished Artist Award in Theatre Arts. He has been Artist in Residence at the Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Red Wing, MN, and Artist in Residence at The Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY.
A Core Playwright Alumnus at The Playwrights' Center in Minneapolis, he is Playwright in Residence with Listening Winds Theatre and was Fiction Editor of The North Dakota Quarterly 1986-2002. He has a B.A. from Columbia University and an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He is Chester Fritz Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at The University of North Dakota. Born in Indianapolis, he lived on the wind-swept plains of North Dakota for 27 years, on a lake in northern Minnesota for 15 years, and, since 2004, in the scrub country 30 miles east of Dallas, TX. He and Nancy Lee-Borden, his wife of 45 years, have 3 adult children and 6 grandchildren.
William Borden's email: borden@hughes.net