Kia Corthron is a playwright and novelist. She is the author of numerous plays, which have been produced in New York, across the U.S., and internationally. Awards for her body of work for the stage include the Windham Campbell Prize for Drama, the Horton Foote Award, the Flora Roberts Award, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, the Otto Award for Political Theatre, the Simon Great Plains Playwright Award, and the Lee Reynolds Award. She has also written a little television: for David Simon’s The Wire (Edgar and Writers Guild Outstanding Series awards) and Tom Fontana’s The Jury. Her plays have been produced nationally and internationally, including at institutions such as Playwrights Horizons, Royal Court Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Mark Taper Forum. She is the recipient of major awards including the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, the Horton Foote Award, the United States Artists Jane Addams Fellowship, and honors for her television writing on The Wire. She has taught extensively in community, university, and correctional settings and has participated in various international residencies and cultural exchanges. She has lived in New York City since 1988 and is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council and the Writers Guild of America.