Wanda Phipps

Who is Wanda Phipps?

Wanda Phipps is a writer living in Brooklyn, New York. She was born in Washington, D.C. and studied theater and English literature at Barnard College of Columbia University in New York City, acting at American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, CA and poetry at Naropa Institute in Boulder, CO.

She wrote Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems ISBN 1-932360-31-X, the chapbooks Lunch Poems, Your Last Illusion or Break Up Sonnets, After the Mishap and the CD-Rom Zither Mood. She also co-authored Shanar: Dedication Ritual of a Buryat Shaman in Siberia ISBN 0-930407-57-1. Her poems have been published over 100 times in journals such as Agni, Exquisite Corpse, The World, Hanging Loose, Sensitive Skin, Long Shot, and the webzines How2: Contemporar y Innovative Writing by Women, Poetic Voices, milkmag, Jack, $lavery: Cyberzine of the Arts, The East Village, Shampoo and Brooklyn Review Online.

She performed her work across the U.S. as well as on papertiger an Australian CD-ROM journal, the CDs State Of The Union produced by Elliott Sharp, New Word Order Compilation CD, Tomato/Rhino/WEA Records and the audio cassette journal We Magazine.