African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist
Andrea Hairston
Andrea Hairston at Voyage Into Genre Live event, St. Joseph's University, May 17, 2024
Born
1952 (age 71–72) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
Playwright
novelist
theatre professor
director
performer
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.[4]
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.[5] 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.[6]
Hairston was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where as a teenager she did community organizing work with union, civil rights and antiwar activism.[7] She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts.[citation needed]
^Cooper, Carol (February 23, 2011). "Nnedi Okorafor and Ishmael Reed, Meet Andrea Hairston". Village Voice. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
^"2011 Tiptree Award Winner announced". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
^"James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2006 Honor List". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. 12 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
^"Past WisCons | WisCon". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
^"Smith College: Theater Faculty & Staff". Smith College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
^http://www.andreahairston.com/bio.php[permanent dead link]
^"Documenting Lesbian Lives". Sophia Smith Collection. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
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