Knot, Or Knot: A Beginner's Yarn" appears in the anthology Knitting Yarns: Writers on Knitting, published by W. W. Norton & Company in November 2013. Plays and screenplays Dufresne's screenplay Freezer Jesus, based on another story in his first short story collection, won in the Grand Valley State University Summer Film Project's 2002 screenwriting contest and was produced that year by the project. The cinematographer, Jack Anderson, has a long list of Hollywood credits. After being selected for several other festivals, it was featured at Saugatuck, Michigan's 2006 Waterfront Film Festival. Dufresne's play, Trailerville, premiered at the Off-off-Broadway Blue Heron Theatre in 2005. In the summer of 2007, Grand Valley State University produced the film To Live and Die In Dixie, with a screenplay by Dufresne. Jack Anderson was again hired as cinematographer, with Harper Philbin as director. The film was released in 2008. References External links Dufresne's website - includes a blog on literature and politics. Trailerville To Live and Die in Dixie Waterfront Film Festival Stranger than Fiction -Author John DuFresne teaches writing and finds his own inspiration in South Florida Flowers, Charles Miami Monthly, (undated, accessed August 14, 2006). Blackbird: an online journal of literature and the arts Biography, works and an interview at The Worcester Writers' Project 1948 births American people of French-Canadian descent Living people 20th-century American novelists American male screenwriters University of Arkansas alumni Florida International University faculty Worcester State University alumni 21st-century American novelists 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights American male novelists American male dramatists and playwrights American male short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 21st-century American short story writers 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Florida Screenwriters from Florida