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Coffin is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, drama, nonfiction, and translation. She has published fiction, poetry and non-fiction in over fifty quarterlies and small magazines, including
400:"A Boy Named Piccolo," translation from the Georgian ("Salamura," by Archil Sulakauri), with Nika Muskheli, illustrated by Vaho Muskheli. Forthcoming June, 2016, Transcendent Zero Press.
183:. Her plays have been performed at theaters in Malaysia, Singapore, Boston, New York (Off Off Broadway), Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Seattle. She has also given poetry readings alongside
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344:"Georgian Anthology of Poetry". Translation from Georgian, ed, by Dodona Kiziria, with the help of Gia Jokhadze. Slavica (Indiana University), September, 2013.
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Theatre, Ann Arbor, Michigan, as a special performance to benefit St. Joseph's Hospital Cancer Fund, 1985)
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Picture", by Jiri Orten (2011). Translation from the Czech, with Eva Eckert, Zdenka Brodska, Leda Pugh. Night Publishing, UK, (2011).
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341:"Joseph Brodsky was Joseph Brodsky," Levan Kavleli Publishing, 2012 (This book was reviewed by Judith Roche, in Big Bridge, 2013)
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338:"áá áá ááá ááá " ("I Am Both"). Poetry, fiction, non-fiction, translated into Georgian by Gia Jokhadze, Mertskuli (Tbilisi), 2012.
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473:"Rodin's Girl Friend" (performed at TaDa! Theater in New York, part of "One Woman Standing," spring, 2010.)
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335:"East and West", poems (and Mongolian translations), with Bavuudorj Tsog. Ulaanbataar, (2012).
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384:"The Knight in the Panther Skin," by Shota Rustaveli, poetry. Translation from Georgian.
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377:"10 by 10" (plays by Lyn and Natalya Churlyaeva in Russian and English, face en face).
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391:"Standing on Earth, the poetry of Mohsen Emadi," forthcoming from Phoneme Media
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514:"Thin Walls" (performed at the Craft Theatre in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the
347:"Animalarky," by Zaza Abiadnidze. Translation from Georgian, September, 2013.
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457:"The Girl in the Moon" (performed, Eclectic Theater, Seattle. July, 2015.)
467:"Vera's Red Hat" (performed at Stone Soup Theater, Seattle, summer, 2011)
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556:"A Stone's Throw" (read at the Attic Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, 1982)
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367:"The First Honeymoon," short fiction. Iron Twine Press, April, 2015.
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691:"Last night, I dreamed about Aunt Percy." Poem featured at the
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587:"Genie in a Klein Bottle" (performed script-in-hand at the
507:"The Difference Between Altoona and Alpena" (performed at
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409:"The First Honeymoon," Iron Twine Press, 2017.
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437:The Aftermath, a novel, Adelaide Books, 2020.
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