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

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References

  1. ^ Cooper, Carol (February 23, 2011). "Nnedi Okorafor and Ishmael Reed, Meet Andrea Hairston". Village Voice. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  2. ^ a b "2011 Tiptree Award Winner announced". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. Archived from the original on 9 May 2012. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  3. ^ "James Tiptree, Jr. Award 2006 Honor List". James Tiptree, Jr. Literary Arts Council. 12 March 2010. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  4. ^ "Past WisCons | WisCon". Retrieved 2023-02-21.
  5. ^ "Smith College: Theater Faculty & Staff". Smith College. Archived from the original on 13 October 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  6. ^ http://www.andreahairston.com/bio.php[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Documenting Lesbian Lives". Sophia Smith Collection. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac "The Library - Andrea Hairston". andreahairston.com. 2011-03-30. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  9. ^ Publishing, Tor com. "Master of Poisons". Tordotcom Publishing. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  10. ^ Hopkinson, Nalo; Mehan, Uppinder (2004-10-01). So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy. arsenal pulp press. ISBN 978-1-55152-316-3.
  11. ^ Thomas, Sheree R. (2004-01-02). Dark Matter: Reading the Bones. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7595-0964-1.
  12. ^ Moreno-Garcia, Silvia; Roanhorse, Rebecca; Das, Indrapramit (2019-03-12). New Suns: Original Speculative Fiction by People of Color. Rebellion Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-78618-203-6.
  13. ^ Donkin, Ellen (1993). Upstaging Big Daddy: Directing Theater as If Gender and Race Matter. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-09503-2.
  14. ^ "The Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database". sffrd.library.tamu.edu. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  15. ^ Larbalestier, Justine (2006-05-22). Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Wesleyan University Press. ISBN 978-0-8195-6676-8.
  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).
  19. ^ Vanderhooft, JoSelle (June 2013). "The WisCon Chronicles (Vol 7): Shattering Ableist Narratives". Aqueduct Press. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  20. ^ Hairston, Andrea (2013-01-01). "Disappearing Natives". Extrapolation. 54 (3): 257–264. doi:10.3828/extr.2013.15. ISSN 2047-7708.
  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.
  24. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Shows - Andrea Hairston". andreahairston.com. 2011-03-30. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  25. ^ "Thunderbird at the Next World Theatre - Andrea Hairston". andreahairston.com. 2014-11-10. Retrieved 2022-09-27.
  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.
  29. ^ "Hairston Wins Tiptree". Locus Magazine. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  30. ^ "The Speculative Literature Foundation: Grants". Speculative Literature Foundation. Archived from the original on 20 February 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2012.
  31. ^ "Staged Reading of Smith Professor Andrea Hairston's Latest Novel Redwood and Wildfire". PioneerValley.org. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2012.

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