A LESSER DAY,
published 2010 by
Spuyten Duyvil Press
in Brooklyn, New York,
is her first book.
Scrima was the recipient
of a literature fellowship from the
Berlin Council on Science, Research,
and the Arts in 2004. In 2007 she won a
National Hackney Literary Award for
SISTERS, a short story from an ongoing
collection titled IN THE BLOOD.
An excerpt from a novel-in-progress has recently won
Second Prize in Glimmer Train’s Fall 2010 Fiction Open.
Scrima is also the
author of ISHMAEL,
which she is currently expanding
into a graphic novel in
collaboration with the
artist Gabi Rets.
Scrima’s criticism can be read regularly in The Brooklyn Rail and The Rumpus.