L. Shapley Bassen’s grandmother was a telegrapher on Wall Street a century ago who taught her to read and tapped messages to her in Morse Code. A New Yorker living in Rhode Island, she is a multi-published & prize-winning author of fiction, poetry, & drama. 2014 novel Summer of the Long Knives (Typhoon Media-Signal 8 Press) 2014 Lives of Crime & Other Stories (Texture Press) 2017 Showfolk & Stories (Inkception Books) 2019 collected works poetry What Suits a Nudist? (Clare Songbirds Publishing House) 1996 The Month Before the Moon (Samuel French, Inc. https://www.concordtheatricals.com/p/1563/the-month-before-the-moon) Fiction editor at https://www.craftliterary.com/. http://www.lsbassen.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ShapleyLoisBassen/?modal=admin_todo_tour; https://www.linkedin.com/in/lois-bassen-11482a5/