helen maryles shankman
| Industry | Arts |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer |
| Introduction | Originally from Chicago, where I was a James Scholar at University of Illinois, I moved to New York to attend Parsons School of Design. I've always danced back and forth between writing and art. My work experience includes illustration, portrait painting and graphic design, mainly at Self, New Woman, Fitness, Child, and Warner Books Publicity and Promotion. My writing has been published in Child magazine, Metropolis, and The Brooklyn Brownstone News. Most recently, my short story The Golem of Zukow was a finalist in Narrative Magazine's Winter 2010 Story Contest. My parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts are Holocaust survivors. Many of the events in my writing are based on personal family stories of heroism, loss and survival. |