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Sarah Ruhl

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Sarah Ruhl is an award winning playwright and essayist. Recipient of a MacArthur "genius" award, a two time Pulitzer Prize finalist, and a Tony nominee, her plays include The Clean House, In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play, and Eurydice, which was named one of the most significant plays of the last twenty-five years by the New York Times. Her plays have been translated into over twelve languages and are produced across the country and internationally. Her collection of essays, 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, was named a Times Notable book. She recently co-authored Letters from Max, a book...

Solmaz Sharif

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Born in Istanbul to Iranian parents, Solmaz Sharif holds degrees from U.C. Berkeley, where she studied and taught with June Jordan's Poetry for the People, and New York University. Her work has appeared in , and others. The former managing director of the Asian American Writers' Workshop, her work has been recognized with a "Discovery"/Boston Review Poetry Prize, scholarships the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, a winter fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, an NEA fellowship, and a Stegner Fellowship. She has most recently been selected to receive a 2014 Rona Jaffe Foundation...