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Andrea Hairston

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States

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http://www.andreahairston.com

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Science Fiction & Fantasy

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Andrea Hairston is an African-American science fiction and fantasy playwright and novelist who is best known for her novels Mindscape and Redwood and Wildfire. Mindscape, Hairston's first novel, won the Carl Brandon Parallax Award and short-listed for the Philip K. Dick Award and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award.

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. 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...more

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	Redwood and Wildfire 4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mindscape 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Impolitic! by Andrea Hairston, Debbie Notkin 4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Uppinder Mehan (Editor), Karin Lowachee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 176 ratings — published 2004 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dark Matter: Reading the Bones by Sheree R. Thomas (Editor), Ibi Zoboi (Goodreads Author), Henry Dumas 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 by L. Timmel Duchamp (Editor), Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages 4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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