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MP's story, "Ecorché (flayed man)" will be published in the journal A Public Space, editor Brigid Hughes, New York, Fall 2009.
MP will be distinguished guest speaker and on the teaching faculty for the Prague Summer Program, Czech Republic during July 2009. This year's theme is The Nature of Mother Nature: Women, Power, and the Environment. A story about the upcoming program appeared in The Prague Post, the Czech Republic's English-language newspaper on May 27, 2009.
MP's story, "The Nine-Gated City" will be published Fall 2009 in Agni magazine, edited by Sven Birkerts.
MP's story “Swimming with Vivaldi” was published in Platte Valley Review, University of Nebraska, Allison Hedge-Coke, editor, spring 2009.
MP's story "Pelagia: Holy Fool," was published in the journal IMAGE: Art, Faith, Mystery (Spring 2009). An interview with her was also published in March by IMAGE's online companion.
In January, 2009, MP returned to India, where she worked with organizations serving at-risk populations: Kalam:Margins Write and Seagull Arts in Calcutta, and with Roma Debabrata's anti-trafficking agency, STOP, in New Delhi. From there she traveled to Afghanistan, where she interviewed Air Force women pilots and members of Provincial Reconstruction Teams about their experiences there. Stay tuned for updates.
A biography written by MP, Devotedly, Virginia: The Life of Virginia Galvin Piper, was published and officially launched at the Piper Charitable Trust's Founders Day Dinner, December 7, 2008. An interview with MP about the biography appears in the December 2008 Piper Bulletin.
