Spoleto Festival
Theotokia, a song cycle with music by Jonathan Berger and text by Dan O’Brien, premiered at the Spoleto Festival USA with Dawn Upshaw, Pedja Muzijevic, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

TCG Future Collaborations
Recipient of a TCG Future Collaborations Grant to travel to Ulukhaktok in the Canadian Arctic to collaborate with journalist Paul Watson.

32 Poems
"Patience" in new issue of 32 Poems.

Cherry Sisters workshop
The Cherry Sisters Revisited in workshop Nov. 11 - 17 with Actors Theatre of Louisville at LSU in Baton Rouge, directed by Andrew Leynse, with original music by Michael Friedman, and Julie Dubiner dramaturg. Feature article here.

New Poem
"Via Waterford" in new issue of Iodine.

New Poem
"From Larchmont" online at The Owls.

New Poem
"A Box of Oranges" in the new issue of Crab Orchard Review.

"My Mother Discusses John Irving"
Writer & Editor Lee Griffith reads "My Mother Discusses John Irving" from the current issue of The Pinch at The Eighth Annual Magathon at the New York Public Library, May 30, 2009. (Begins min. 75.)

McKnight National Residency & Commission
Selected to receive the 2009-10 McKnight National Residency & Commission from The Playwrights' Center. More information here.

New Poems
"Danvers Wedding" in the new issue of Greensboro Review, "First Pages of a New Journal" in Iodine Poetry Journal, and "My Mother Discusses John Irving" in The Pinch.