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Andrea Hairston

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Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre. She is the author of Redwood and Wildfire, winner of the 2011 Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, and Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K Dick and Otherwise Awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. In her spare time, she is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Afro-American Studies at Smith College. She has received the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to the criticism of the fantastic. She bikes at night year-round, meeting bears, and the occasional shooting star.

Andrea Hairston Books

Archangels of Funk book cover

Archangels of Funk

Andrea Hairston
Will Do Magic for Small Change book cover

Will Do Magic for Small Change

Andrea Hairston
Redwood and Wildfire book cover

Redwood and Wildfire

Andrea Hairston
Master of Poisons book cover

Master of Poisons

Andrea Hairston
Chaos and Cosmos Sampler, Part II book cover

Chaos and Cosmos Sampler, Part II

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