Andrea Hairston

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Andrea Hairston
Born1952 (age 71–72)
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Occupation
NationalityAmerican
Education Smith College
Brown University
Period1979–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]

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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. [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 ]

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  2. 1 2 "2011 Tiptree Award Winner announced". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
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  16. ↑ Barr, Marleen S. (2008). Afro-future Females: Black Writers Chart Science Fiction's Newest New-wave Trajectory. Ohio State University Press. ISBN   978-0-8142-9156-6.
  17. ↑ Hairston, Andrea (October 2011). "Heretical Connectedness: An Appreciative Look at Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis" (PDF). The Cascadia Subduction Zone. 1 (4): 12–13.
  18. ↑ Hairston, Andrea (2011). "Different and Equal Together: SF Satire in District 9". Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. 22 (3).
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  21. ↑ Hairston, Andrea (2014-01-16). "Dismantling the Echo Chamber: On Africa SF". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  22. ↑ Hairston, Andrea (2017-03-25). "What Art Does: "When the World Wounds" by Kiini Ibura Salaam". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  23. ↑ Hairston, Andrea (2018-09-08). "It's Our Time: The Women of Wakanda". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
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  26. ↑ Gunnels, Jen; Underwood, Erin (2014). Geek Theater. Underwords. ISBN   978-0-9858934-6-0.
  27. ↑ Hairston, Andrea; Notkin, Debbie (2012-05-01). Impolitic!. Aqueduct Press. ISBN   978-1-61976-009-7.
  28. ↑ Hairston, Andrea (2014). Lonely Stardust: Two Plays, a Speech, and Eight Essays. Aqueduct Press. ISBN   978-1-61976-051-6.
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