Writings

Writing Awards

  • Finalist, Independent Book Publishers Perennial Seller Award, 2017

  • Co-host, Expresso Yourself Coffeehouse, Medfield, MA

  • Board Member, Rainbow Lifelong Learning Institute

  • Induction into International Educators Hall of Fame, 2015

  • Semifinalist, 2015 Fineline Competition, Mid-American Review

  • Semifinalist, 2014 Mary Ballard Poetry Chapbook Prize

  • Semifinalist, 1996 International Poetry Competition, Atlanta Review

  • Member, Los Angeles 1998 Slam Team

Fiction

Poetry Books

Poetry (Selected)

  • “Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett,” ONTHEBUS, Issue 23, Bambaz Press, 2018.

  • “My Mother’s Hands,” ONTHEBUS, Issue 23, Bambaz Press, 2018.

  • “Separation,” In: Short Poems Got Nobody To Love, (ed., Raundi Moore-Kondo), For the Love of Words, 2016.

  • “My Star Light,” In: Short Poems Got Nobody To Love, (ed., Raundi Moore-Kondo), For the Love of Words, 2016.

  • “Hard K Sounds,” Spectrum 3, 2016

  • “As We Speak,” Spectrum, 2015

  • The Evolutionary Record,” Soul-Lit, Summer, 2015

  • “On The Sanctuary of Artemis Dying,” Soul-Lit, Summer, 2015

  • “Friday Night at Agios Konstantinos,” Soul-Lit, Summer, 2015

  • “Lovesickness,” In: A Poet is a Poet No Matter How Tall: Episode Two: Attack of the Poems (ed., Raundi Moore-Kondo), For the Love of Words, 2014

  • “Libraries Lost,” In: A Poet is a Poet No Matter How Tall: Episode Two: Attack of the Poems (ed., Raundi Moore-Kondo), For the Love of Words, 2014

  • “Hard K Sounds,” Moon Tide Press Poet of the Month. June 2014

  • “I should know something about death. I have been in the seat.” Moon Tide Press Poet of the Month. June 2014

  • “Orejas de Elephante,” In: A Poet is a Poet No Matter How Tall (ed., Raundi Moore-Kondo), For the Love of Words, 2013.

  • “The Recipe,” In: A Poet is a Poet No Matter How Tall (ed., Raundi Moore-Kondo), For the Love of Words, 2013.

  • “Me and Meryl Streep,” The Hummingbird Review, Vol. IV, 2013

  • “Evolutionary Record,” The Hummingbird Review, Vol. III, 2012

  • “I Love Popcorn”, Don’t Blame the Ugly Mug, ed. Steve Ramirez and Ben Trigg, Tebot Bach, 2011

  • “When Civilizations Die”, The Hummingbird Review, Spring, 2011

  • “Friday Night at Agios Konstantinos”, The Hummingbird Review, Spring, 2011

  • “The Small Fortress at Terezin,” Poetry Super Highway,Apr, 2009

  • “The Rock of Sibyl at Delphi”, poeticdiversity.org, August 2008

  • “Keeping The Ground,” In Blood to Remember,(ed. Charles Fishman), Time Being Books,2007

  • “The Synagoga Stara at Krakow,” Poetry Super Highway, Apr 16-22, 2007

  • “Perception,” Get Underground, March 2007

  • “Someone Said Everything is a Gift,” New Works Review,2007

  • “When They Go”, New Works Review, 2007

  • “Abracadabra”, Mannequin Envy, Winter, 2007

  • “Garden of the Dead”, poeticdiversity,April 2007

  • “Abracadabra”, Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets, Tebot Bach, 2006

  • On The Sanctuary of Artemis Dying”, ONTHEBUS, 19/20, 2005

  • “Dinner at Archanes, Crete”, Sunspinner,2nd issue, 2004

  • “Evolutionary Record,” The Southern California Anthology, Vol. XVIII, 2003

  • “Abracadabra”, Rattle, December 1998

  • “Be Ye God”, Spillway, Vol 8, October 1998

  • “The Campground Host”, Peregrine 1997, Vol XVI, November 1997

Non-fiction

  • “Finding My Authentic Self,” Side-Eye on the Apocalypse: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry from 2020, Common Forces Press, 2021
  • “The Difference,” Fired Up Magazine, Climate Change and Consciousness special edition, 2019

  • “Another Blue Day,” In: Earth Etudes for Elul, Katy Z. Allen (editor), Strong Voices Publishing, 2018

  • “Dandelions and Teshuvah,” In: Earth Etudes for Elul, Katy Z. Allen (editor), Strong Voices Publishing, 2018

  • “Inspirational Play at Expresso,” Medfield Hometown Weekly, August 24, 2017

  • “Coffeehouse Celebrates Its First Anniversary,” Medfield Hometown Weekly, February 23, 2017

  • “The First Time I Closed An Airport” In: Firsts: Writers’ Loft Anthology, 2016

  • “And Just Who is the Supermodel?” Spirit of Change Magazine, Spring, 2015

  • From Whence Comes Love (ghostwriter), Laguna Woods: RI Publishing, 2013

  • “Laguna Beach: We Did It For You!”, National League of American Pen Women Magazine, Fall/Winter 2012

  • “Contextual Poetry”, The Hummingbird Review, Vol. III, 2012

  • “Beyond the First Draft”, In: News Clips and Ego Trips, G. Murray Thomas, Ed., Write Bloody Publishing, 2011

  • “The Witch of North Long Beach,” In: Books by Authors: North Long Beach Anthology, Smolar Corp, 2009

  • “Contextual Poetry”, IP eNews, Vol 3, No. 2, 2001

Produced Plays (selected)

  • “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History”, produced by We Did It For You LLC, directed by Kerri Cooper, musical director Carolyn Waters (various venues throughout Massachusetts) www.WeDidItForYou.org

  • “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History”, produced by SMART Theatre Productions, directed by Terra Taylor Knudson (various venues throughout California) www.WeDidItForYou.org

  • “The Only Thing Greek About Me Is My Name”, directed by Karen Aschenbach (various venues) www.theonlythinggreek.com 

  • “At Seven”, children’s musical, (music and lyrics by Penni Rubin), Toledo Repertoire Theatre, directed by Madge Levinson. www.AtSevenTheMusical.com

  • “When I Was Called Tony”, (one-act) The OUT Theatre, Long Beach, CA

  • “Vanillaville”, 15-minute musical, The Colony Theatre, Glendale, CA

  • “Primed for Love,” The Eclectic Company Theatre, North Hollywood, CA

  • “Amacry! The Neuronic Musical”, (music by James Harding and Peter Grand), directed by Glory Vernon, The OUT Theatre, Long Beach, CA

Staged Readings (selected)

  • “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History”, Millis Cultural Arts Festival, April 2017

  • “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History”, Mission Viejo Public Library, March 2016

  • “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History”, Toledo Public Library, March 2014

  • “We Did It For You! Women’s Journey Through History”, Pacific Club, Newport Beach, CA, June 2013

  • “Walking the Dog”, Look and Listen Performing Arts Series 5 Minute Play Festival, San Diego, CA, March 2013

  • “Primed for Love”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, October 2012

  • “The Hole”, Long Beach Arts, Long Beach, CA, October 2012

  • “Primed for Love”, Theatre Guild, Laguna Woods, CA, August 2012

  • “The Only Thing Greek About Me Is My Name”, ANMT, March 30, 2007

  • “Vanillaville”, Hollywood Court Theatre, Los Angeles, August 15, 2005

  • “The Hole”, one-act play, FirstStage Playwrights Express, May 21, 2005

  • “Life is Not a Flame,” Moving Arts Theatre, Los Angeles, March 18, 2004

  • “Brain Swamping”, Strawn’s Attic, Los Angeles, CA, September 2003

Guest Blogs

Published Interviews and Articles

  • “Framingham library to sponsor livestream of Dedham playwright’s story of women’s suffrage”, Dedham Times, August 18, 2020
  •  “Thea Iberall Loves Bridging the Gap Between the Arts and Sciences” by Carine Nadel, Senior Reporter, January 2014
  • Interview conducted by Michelle Angelini, Graffiti Verite, 2007

Scientific and Technical Books

  • The Grasping Hand with C. MacKenzie, North-Holland: Elsevier, 1994

  • Dextrous Robot Hands (ed) with S. Venkataraman, NY: Springer-Verlag, 1990

  • Computer Architecture, 3rd Ed., with C. Foster, MA: Van Nostrand-Reinhold, 1985

Scientific and Technical Papers (Selected)

  • Iberall, T. Human Prehension and Dextrous Robot Hands, Intl Journal of Robotics Research, 16(3), June, 1997.
  • Iberall, T. and Fagg, A.(1996). Neural Network Models for Selecting Hand Shapes. In: A.M. Wing, P. Haggard, and J.R. Flanagan (Eds) Hand and Brain: The Neurophysiology and Psychology of Hand Movements, NY: Academic Press.
  • Iberall, T. and Arbib, M.A. (1990). Schemas for the control of hand movements: an essay on cortical localization. In: M. Goodale (ed) Vision and Action: The Control of Grasping, NJ: Ablex, 204-242.
  • Iberall, T. (1987, March-April). The nature of human prehension: Three dextrous hands in one. Proceedings of the 1987 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 396-401.