Recent M.P. News

A biography written by MP, Devotedly, Virginia: The Life of Virginia Galvin Piper, will be published in 2008 by the Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust, see Phoenix Magazine interview.

MP was elected an Executive Board Member of The Daywalka Foundation, an anti-trafficking agency based in Portland, OR., working to end sex trafficking and violence against women and children in India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.

MP's novella, Phoenix was published in Italian translation during 2007, by Palomar Press, Italy, as part of a series on North American literature, "La Vigna Nascosta." Other authors in the series include John Nichols, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Rudolfo Anaya.

MP gave a presentation on the relation of fiction writing to social justice, and the pursuit of balance and understanding within communities at the 2008 Spring Humanities Series at Columbia Gorge Community College in The Dalles, Oregon on April 9, 2008.

MP's "Writing Exercises"appeared in Naming the World and Other Creative Writing Exercises, ed. Bret Anthony Johnston (Random House). Other contributors include Richard Bausch, Dorothy Allison, Elizabeth McCracken, Mark Windegardner, Joyce Carol Oates, Margot Livesey, Alan Cheuse, Russell Banks, January 2008.

MP directed the Phoenix Children's Hospital Outreach Project, Kidney Dialysis Unit, with ASU Creative Writing graduate students during Spring 2008.

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