Andrea Hairston
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Andrea Hairston is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist who is best known for her novels Mindscape and Redwood and Wildfire. Mindscape, Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award
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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
. 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.
Hairston was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
James Tiptree, Jr. Award
The James Tiptree, Jr. Award is an annual literary prize for works of science fiction or fantasy that expand or explore one's understanding of gender. It was initiated in February of 1991 by science fiction authors Pat Murphy and Karen Joy Fowler, subsequent to a discussion at WisCon.- Background...
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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
Smith College
Smith College is a private, independent women's liberal arts college located in Northampton, Massachusetts. It is the largest member of the Seven Sisters...
. 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
Michael Ende
Michael Andreas Helmuth Ende was a German author of fantasy and children's literature. He is best known for his epic fantasy work The Neverending Story; other famous works include Momo and Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver...
and Kaca Celan
Kaca Celan
Kaca Celan is a renowned and award-winning writer, director, theater and acting expert, professor and actress...
from German to English.
Hairston was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She currently lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.
Novels
- Mindscape (Aqueduct PressAqueduct PressAqueduct Press is a publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States which publishes material which features a feminist viewpoint.-History:...
, 2006) - Redwood and Wildfire (Aqueduct PressAqueduct PressAqueduct Press is a publisher based in Seattle, Washington, United States which publishes material which features a feminist viewpoint.-History:...
, February 2011)
Anthologies and Essays
- Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century (Wesleyan University Press, 2006)
- Narrative Power: Encounters, Celebrations, Struggles
- The WisCon Chronicles: Volume 4
- The WisCon Chronicles: Volume 1
- The International Review of Science Fiction
- So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Visions of the Future
- Dark Matter, Reading The Bones
- Exploding in Slow Motion
- The International Review of Science Fiction
Plays
- Soul Repairs
- Lonely Stardust
- Hummingbird Flying Backward
- Dispatches
- Archangels of Funk
Awards
- IAFA Distinguished Scholarship Award, 2011
- 2006 Carl Brandon Parallax Award for Mindscape, 2010
- Launch Pad—Fellow at NASA funded Writer’s Workshop, August 2008
- Guest of Honor, Diversicon Science Fiction Convention, Minneapolis, MN, August 2007
- James Tiptree Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007
- Philip K. Dick Award Finalist for Mindscape, 2007
- Older Writers Grant, Speculative Literature Foundation for Exploding in Slow Motion excerpt, 2005