Heather Dune MacAdam <-click for photo

Job Title: Full-Time Lecturer

Phone: (631) 632-5074

E-mail: hmacadam@notes.sunysb.edu

Office Location: Southampton - Chancellor's Hall 244

Office Hours

Education:

MFA, Creative Writing, Southampton College, NY - June 1999 BA, English Literature and Creative Writing, Salem College,NC - Dec. 1995

Courses Taught:

• WRT 101 and 102, Creative Imagination, Technical Writing and Environmental Writing and the Media (SUNY)
• Creative Nonfiction I, II, III, Writing for Radio, Travel Writing, Forms in Creative Nonfiction, Writing the Memoir (Savannah College of Art and Design)

Professional Organizations : New York State Teacher’s Union; American Writing Programs (AWP)

Presentations:

Abstract Expressionism as a Means for Understanding Holocaust Literature      2009
BOCES, Artist in the Schools Program

Organic Metaphor in Self Narrative Lecture and Workshop
Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ      Oct. 27 2008

American Studies Conference Istanbul, Turkey      Oct. 9 2008

Southampton Writers Conference      July 2008
Finding and Marketing Themes in Your Writing

SUNY COW Conference      April 2008
The Creative Composition Kitchen: From Pamphlets to Radio to the Naked Stage
     
AWP – Pedagogy Paper      Jan. 2008
Writing radio commentaries as a means of strengthening voice and editing skills.
Writing to Heal—CAWS Conference at New York Technical College      Jan. 2002
Part of a panel on the post 9/11 classroom in New York.
Stairwell Classroom Composition Discussion – BedforD/St. Martins Educators Website

“Writing Trauma—When the Syllabus Goes Out the Window, Teaching in the Wake of 9/11”      Summer 2002

PUBLICATIONS:

Books

RENA'S PROMISE: A STORY OF SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ - 1995
(Creative Nonfiction, memoir)        Beacon Press, USA; Weidenfeld & Nicolson-Orion Books, UK;
Japan & Germany, 1997; Turkey, 1998.

• AWARDS:  * see below
• NOMINATIONS: The National Book Award, The Christopher Award,      The American Jewish Book Award, The National Library Association Award

THE WEEPING BUDDHA - Oct. 2002
(Fiction) Akashic Books

• NOMINATIONS: Nero Wolf Award—Best North American Mystery, Finalist
• Lambda Award—Best Mystery, Finalist The Edgar—Nominated, Best New Paperback, Book Sense Nomination

THE DUNES OF PILGRIM LAKE      2007
(Creative Nonfiction)      TBA

Short Stories

The Bridge
Indiana Review Short fiction Contest.  Finalist      2008

Skky
Racing Home: New Short Stories B y Award Winning North Carolina Writers, Paper Journey Press, NC,      2001

Family Reunions and Other Forms of Torture       2000
Proteus,  Southampton, NY.

AWARDS:

Student Awards:

Vanity Fair      Editorial Assistant to Editor in Chief      June 2008
New York Times Sunday Magazine       “Across the DMZ” by Mary Chi Kim      Sept. 17 2006
Edge Magazine, UK      Freelance Writer, Jacob Cholak
Public Radio WXLV-FM (PA)      Lauren Stewart and Marshall Dungan-Commentaries      Spring 2007
The South      “Dog Parks in Savannah” by Kristen Bolt      May 2006
Atlanta Women and Skirt      Featured Columnist, Taylor Arnold      August 2006
Nick News with Linda Ellerbee       Associate Producer, Colleen Katana      2006-9
Society Collegiate Journalists Awards: First place - Radio broadcast feature, Matt Terrell      2007

Awards and Grants:

Indiana Review—Finalist      2008
Presidential Fellowship      2006
Carnegie Grant for Authors*      2000
John Steinbeck/Alden Whitman Award      2000
Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Competition—Finalist      2000
Hadassah Service Award*      1998
PEN American Writer's Fund*      1997
Winston-Salem Emerging Artist Grant, North Carolina*      1996
Writer of the Year, Times-News, North Carolina*      1995
National Book Award—Nomination*      1995

*Rena’s Promise

COMMENTARIES AND ARTICLES:

•  “How to Tame a Womanizer”      You Magazine, The Mail on Sunday, UK      March 2008
• “Love On Both Sides of the Fence”      First Magazine      Feb. 2008
• “Attacking the Green Eyed Monster”      You Magazine, The Mail on Sunday, UK      Feb 2007
• “A Gal Needs a Guy?”      Observer Women, The Guardian Observer  UK      June 11, 2006
•       Marie Claire, AUS      Dec. 2006
•  “Just Say Yes! (Domestic Partner vs. Marriage)”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      Jan. 27, 2005
• “Pronoun Problems”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      July 27, 2004
• “Auschwitz Survivor Anniversary”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      June 1, 2004
• “Vitamin Junkie”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      Jan. 2, 2004
• “Plagiarism—Real or Memorex?”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      Jan. 4, 2004
•  “To Death Do Us Part – Gay Marriage”      NPR FEATURE—All Things Considered (npr.org)      Oct. 31, 2003
• “Adjunct Pool”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      June 2, 2003
• “How to Move a House in the Hamptons”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      April 27, 2003
• “Revising Truth in Fiction”      NPR—All Things Considered (npr.org)      Feb 18, 2003
• “Without A Trace”       The New York Times      Dec. 29, 2002
• “Father’s Day”             The Advocate

PRODUCTIONS: PLAYS AND SCRIPTS:

“Dear Dadann” 2000
Produced by Southampton Players.
Finalist: The Tennessee Williams One-Act Play and Drury Play Festival Awards.

“RENA'S PROMISE: A STORY OF SISTERS IN AUSCHWITZ” 2000
Screen adaptation of the book.  In association with Milk & Honey Films, Prague. 

OUT OF THE LANTERN – Feature Film 1998
Collaborative work of hired team for fantasy children’s story.

MATLOCK - ABC 1995
“Murder By Design” - Episode 197. Starring Andy Griffith, Brynn Thayer.

What's It Like? What’s It Like Productions, Winston-Salem, NC. 1994
Educational video series exploring creative problem-solving techniques. 

EARTHSEARCH, BBC 1989
Adapted from the British radio show, in collaboration with Gene Rodenberry Productions and Johnny Dawkins (staff writer for Star Trek-The Next Generation).

EDITOR & ABRIDGER      1983 – 1986; 1997
Warner Audio Publishing, 666 Fifth Ave. NYC, NY   Jeffrey Hollander, Producer 
Abridging books to audiotape, and editing other abridger’s work. Special projects included: The Mists of Avalon, Marion Z. Bradley; The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin; The Vitamin Bible, Earl Mindell.

 

FILM PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT:

 ASSISTANT TO THE PRODUCER 1999
“I Remember Me” – Documentary, produced by Kim Snyder
Best Documentary-2000 Denver Film Festival.

FESTIVAL MANAGER – The Hamptons International Film Festival  1997

ASSISTANT PRODUCER      1989
SCRIPTWRITER
Creative Network Studios 4204 Barringer Drive, Charlotte, NC
Chuck Ison, Producer
Shawnee State University Promotional Video
Various Commercials: Hanes, Sara Lee, Circuit City, Hyundai

KEY PRODUCTION ASSISTANT   (partial list):       1987-1992
Last Of The Mohicans      Noblehouse
Mr. Destiny      `Winter People

 

LECTURER & GUEST APPEARANCES:

2007: Guest Author. First Annual LGBT Reading – Savannah, GA
2004-6: BOCES, Artists in the schools program - Holocaust. Southampton Writer’s Conference (guest); LAMBDA Conference - Panelist—using nonfiction in our fiction.
2003: John Steinbeck Project—Meet the Writers Book Fair; Writers on the Vine—Mysterious Women (with SJ Rozen and Nancy Geary); Southampton Writer’s Conference (panel).
2002: Writing To Heal, CAWS Conference at NYTC (Panel member-The Therapeutic Classroom);
1999: John Steinbeck Project—Meet the Writers Book Fair
1998: Montauk Middle School-Guild Hall in East Hampton (dramatization of excerpts of Rena’s Promise); “The Holocaust-We Must Remember” with American Freedom Network and Amerinet Broadcasting.
1997: Share Our Strength—Authors' Benefit for our Nation’s Hungry (featured guest, Maya Angelou)
1996: Jewish Federation and Albright College and Brown University; BBC-Radio: London, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, etc., “The Women’s Hour”; ITN-“The Selena Scott Show”; South African Radio Network
1995: Salem College in Winston-Salem, NC; Voice of America; WBAI Morning Show (NYC); Voices of Our World; National Public Radio, Israel Sunday (Cable TV), and CBS-The Morning Show