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Andrea Hairston

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born

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The United States

gender

female

website

http://www.andreahairston.com

genre

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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Books by Andrea Hairston

Average rating: 3.91 · 165 ratings · 44 reviews · 4 distinct works

	Redwood and Wildfire 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mindscape 3.52 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy by Nalo Hopkinson (Editor), Uppinder Mehan (Editor), Karin Lowachee (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The WisCon Chronicles, Volume 1 by L. Timmel Duchamp (Editor), Eileen Gunn, Ellen Klages 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007	My rating: