Biography of Carole Bugge

Carole Bugge is a novelist, poet, playwright and composer. She has five published novels (St. Martin's Press and Berkley), three novellas and a dozen or so short stories and poems in print. Her work has received glowing reviews from such publications as Kirkus, The Library Journal, Publisher's Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Herald, Ellery Queen, and many others. Her short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines. Winner of both the Euphoria Poetry Competition and the Eve of St. Agnes Poetry Award, she is also the First Prize winner of the Maxim Mazumdar Playwriting Competition, the Chronogram Literary Fiction Prize, Jerry Jazz Musician Short Fiction Award, and the Jean Paiva Memorial Fiction award, which included an NEA grant to read her fiction and poetry at Lincoln Center. A finalist in the McClaren, MSU and Henrico Playwriting Competitions, she has read her work at Barnes and Noble, The Knitting Factory, Mercy College, Merritt Books, the Colony Cafe and the Gryphon Bookstore. She has received grants from Poets and Writers, as well as the New York State Arts Council. Her story "A Day in the Life of Comrade Lenin" received an Honorable Mention in St. Martin's Best Fantasy and Horror Stories, and she was a winner in the Writer's Digest Competition in both the playwriting and essay categories. She was head writer for the television sketch show Human Relations 101 and is a juror for the Scholastic National Achievement Awards in both the playwriting and fiction writing categories. Her plays and musicals have been presented in New York City at The Players Club, Manhattan Punchline, Pulse Theatre, The Van Dam Street Playhouse, Love Creek, Playwrights Horizons, HERE, the Episcopal Actors' Guild, the Jan Hus Theatre, Lakota Theatre, The Open Book, Genesius Guild, the 14th Street Y, and Shotgun Productions, the Alleyway Theatre in Buffalo, as well as Actors and Writers and the Byrdcliffe Theatre in Woodstock, New York. She was sponsored by The Paper Mill Playhouse for a TCG Playwriting Award two years in a row, and was a Playwriting Fellowship finalist at Manhattan Theatre Club. Her play about physics, Strings, was presented in New York at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, starring Keir Dullea, Mia Dillon and Warren Kelley; John Simon called it "the most absorbing play in New York." For five months of the year she is Artist in Residence at the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony in Woodstock, New York.