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Kia Corthron (born May 13, 1961) is an American playwright, activist, television writer, and novelist. She received the 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Drama which is one of the largest prizes in the world of its kind. In 2022, her hometown newspaper named Corthron one of the region's 30 most influential people of color.
Aug 31, 2021 · Biography. Kia Corthron is a playwright and novelist. She is the daughter of Shirley Elaine Beckwith Corthron and James Leroye Corthron. James was born and raised on a farm outside of Farmville, Virginia.
Sep 2, 2021 · Kia Corthron’s debut novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, was the winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She was the 2017 Bread Loaf Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel.
Feb 12, 2024 · Renowned playwright and novelist Kia Corthron has etched her name into the annals of theater and literature with an extensive body of work that challenges societal norms and delves into the complexities of the human experience.
Kia Corthron is a playwright and novelist. Moon and the Mars, her second novel, was released in August 2021. Her debut, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, was the winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice. For her body of work for the stage, she has garnered the Windham Campbell Prize ...
Kia Corthron was born in Cumberland, Maryland, in 1961, the second of three daughters born to Shirley Elaine Beckwith Corthron, a Cumberland native, and James Leroye Corthron, who grew up on a farm outside Farmville, Virginia, and who, after relocating to Cumberland, worked for the local paper mill.
Biography. Kia Corthron's plays include A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick (Playwrights Horizons co-production with The Play Company and the Culture Project), Steel Hammer (co-writer, Anne Bogart/SITI Company, ATL Humana, BAM, national and international tours), Trickle (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Life by Asphyxiation (The Drama Club at Joe's ...
