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Michele Forsten is a playwright, essayist and
co-founder of the New York City Lesbian Cancer Support Consortium.
Her short plays, “Winning?” and “Dinosaur
Doc” have been performed in New York City, Provincetown,
Boston and San Francisco.  “Winning?”
was published in Smith & Kraus’ Best Stage Scenes
of 2000 and in the Harrington Lesbian Fiction Quarterly
(Volume I, Number 2).
A full-length play, “Be My Baby!”
was a semi-finalist in Playwrights’ Circle’s National
New Play Festival in Palm Springs (CA), where it received a staged
reading. The play was also a finalist in the Pittsburgh New Play
Festival and a semi-finalist in the Moondance International Festival
Stage Play Competition and in the London Borough of Newham’s
Lesbian & Gay Stage Play Competition. A monologue from “Be
My Baby!” was published in Smith & Kraus’ Best
Women's Stage Monologues of 2000.
Michele’s personal essays and other articles
have been published in Mamm magazine, The New York
Times and other newspapers nationwide, including the
Philadelphia Gay News, San Francisco Bay Times, Outword Magazine,
Windy City Times, Metro Weekly (Washington, DC) and Watermark
(Orlando).
In 2004, she received the Sarah Pettit Memorial
Award for Excellence in LGBT Media, second place, from the National
Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, for a series of article
on breast cancer.
Co-producer of the 1993 award-winning documentary
"Homoteens," she grew up (debatable) in Coney Island,
Brooklyn, and went on to earn an MA in media studies from The
New School for Social Research (now called The New School University)
and a BA in English from the City College of New York (CCNY).
She currently works as a college administrator in Brooklyn.
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