Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston
Born 1952
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Occupation Playwright, novelist, theatre professor, director, performer
Nationality American
Education Smith College, Brown University
Period 1979 - present
Genre Science fiction, fantasy
Website
www.andreahairston.com

Andrea Hairston (born 1952) is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist.[1] Her novel Redwood and Wildfire won the James Tiptree, Jr. Award for 2011.[2] Mindscape, Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and was short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.[3] Hairston was one of the Guests of Honor at the science fiction convention Wiscon in May 2012.

She is the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre and has created original productions with music, dance, and masks for more than a decade. Hairston is also the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College.[4] She teaches playwriting, African, African American, and Caribbean theatre literature. Her plays have been produced at Yale Rep, Rites and Reason, the Kennedy Center, StageWest, and on public radio and television. In addition, Hairston has translated plays by Michael Ende and Kaca Celan from German to English.[5]

Hairston was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where as a teenager she did community organizing work with union, civil rights and antiwar activism.[6] She currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.

Works

Novels

Anthologies and Essays

Plays

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Nnedi Okorafor and Ishmael Reed, Meet Andrea Hairston .". Village Voice. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. 1 2 "2011 Tiptree Award Winner announced.". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ↑ "James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2006 Honor List". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Smith College: Theater Faculty & Staff.". Smith College. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.andreahairston.com/bio.php[]
  6. ↑ "Documenting Lesbian Lives.". Sophia Smith Collection. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  7. ↑ "Hairston Wins Tiptree.". Locus Magazine. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  8. ↑ "The Speculative Literature Foundation: Grants". Speculative Literature Foundation. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  9. ↑ "Staged Reading of Smith Professor Andrea Hairston's Latest Novel Redwood and Wildfire". PioneerValley.org. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

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