Irene O'Garden is listed in Who's Who in the World, in America, and of American Women. Her critically acclaimed play, Women On Fire (Samuel French), played to sold-out houses Off Broadway at the Cherry Lane Theatre and was nominated for a 2004 Lucille Lortel award for Best Solo Show. Her new play, Little Heart, won her a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Fellowship awarded by the Millay Colony. O'Garden's writing is anthologized with Eleanor Roosevelt, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem, and others in The Greatness Of Girls. Her performance piece/book, Fat Girl, was published by Harper in hardcover. In addition to publishing in national magazines, O'Garden regularly performs her poetry throughout the Hudson Valley. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Alembic, Anemone Sidecar, Atlanta Review, The Awakenings Review, Bayou, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, California Quarterly, Calyx, Chachalaca Poetry Review, College English, Compass Rose, Confrontation, Controlled Burn, Literary Gazette, Permafrost, Rockford Review, Sanskrit, Skylark, Spirit To Spirit, Tusculum Review, Wawayanda Review, Whiskey Island Review, and Willow Review. She received a 2012 Willow Review Award for her poem, "Nonfiction," and won a 2012 Pushcart Prize for her essay, "Glad To Be Human." In 1987 O'Garden founded The Art Garden, a performing literary magazine. She has continued to produce, host, and write for it ever since, and recently launched www.artgardenonline.com. Her personal blog can be found at www.ireneogarden.com.