Tania Katan is an author, playwright, and performer. Her memoir My One-Night Stand With Cancer is the winner of the 2006 Judy Grahn Award in Nonfiction, an honoree of the 2006 American Library Association’s Stonewall Book Award in Non-Fiction, and a finalist for the 2006 Lambda Literary Award. Rock-n-Roller Melissa Etheridge said of Tania’s memoir, “This book rocks! It’s passionate, playful, and downright beautiful,” and the Library Journal gave the book a Star Review. Since the success of her first book, Tania has been performing the one-woman show version of My One-Night Stand With Cancer to rave reviews in venues like the famed ACT in Seattle, The Painted Bride Arts Center in Philadelphia, and her next stop will be a 4-week run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland August, 2008.  As a public speaker and teacher, Tania is invited to teach writing workshops and give performative lectures around the world. Most recently Katan was in Iceland teaching along side artist Angela Ellsworth a “Performing for the Camera” workshop as part of the Iceland 700.is Experimental Film and Video Festival. She is a regular on the university circuit, speaking at Loyola Marymount, Berkeley, University of Connecticut, Arizona State University, and others.  Tania is extremely proud to be a graduate of the New York Artist in Residence program at the Creative Center, an organization that brings the art making process to the bedsides of people in the hospital dealing with cancer. For more information please visit www.taniakatan.com