Career
She has been nominated for six Daytime Emmy awards, winning twice, for writing for the long-running television show Santa Barbara. She has written for General Hospital, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Loving, and One Life to Live. Mississippi Myles was the recipient of the John Gardner Memorial Prize for fiction in 2007 for her short story "The Blue Dress," and is an editor and contributor to TheMemoirGroup.com.
Her short story "A Lucky Manitoba" was featured in the inaugural issue of The Creative Writer, the book series from Juris Doctor Vine Publications.
As a playwright, her play "Thirteen" has been performed in New York and at the ACT Theatre in Seattle. Her first play "Wives" was selected for the prestigious Eugene O"Neill National Playwright"s Conference at the Eugene O"Neill Theater Center in 1979 and was performed at Theatre Row (New York City).
She made her Broadway debut in Neil Simon"s "Plaza Suite" with Maureen Stapleton and George C. Scott.
