who am I?

Becky Bondurant is a Richmond, VA-based writer, painter, English teacher, performance artist, and marketing coordinator for non-profit. She earned an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from George Mason University where she studied fiction under NPR’s Alan Cheuse. Since that time, she has served as a teacher on the high school and college level in schools throughout Virginia and has led study abroad trips to Ireland (where she met the descendants of James Joyce), Northern Ireland, and Denmark.

In 2021, she enrolled in virtual storytelling classes with New York City monologist Mike Daisey. These bi-weekly class meetings, which have continued on-and-off for more than three years, revealed that extemporaneous oral narrative was the right medium for Bondurant’s work about the body, ritual, and the relationship between individual and community.

Informed by her experiences as a parent, a teacher, a queer, a student of literature, and a former Catholic, Becky’s stories unravel extemporaneously, undressing taboo topics like sex, age, weight, othering, power, ritual, and death in a voice that is as raunchy and irreverent as it is philosophical and poetic.

Becky is currently at work on her next solo show and is also writing a stage play based on the years she worked at a retirement community.  Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction appear in various anthologies, literary journals, and magazines including the The Adirondack Review, The Copperfield Review, The Richmond Times Dispatch and R Home. Her one-woman show, Penis Envy, made its world premiere at the Capital Fringe Festival 2024 in DC with follow up performances at the Philly Fringe Festival in 2024 the 2025 Z Fringe Festival, the 2025 Richmond Fringe Festival, and the 2025 Cannonball Festival in Philadelphia. Her New York City premiere of Penis Envy comes to the Gotham Storytelling Festival November of 2025.