Andrea Hairston

Andrea Hairston is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist, best known for Redwood and Wildfire, which won the James Tiptree Jr. Award for 2011, and for Mindscape, which won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. Her other fiction includes Master of Poisons and Will Do Magic for Small Change, and her plays have been produced at Yale Rep and the Kennedy Center. She is artistic director of Chrysalis Theatre and a professor of theatre and Afro-American studies at Smith College, and she lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.