Merrill Fellow, Kia Corthron to read at Bank Square Books

Please join us at Bank Square Books for a reading by James Merrill Fellow, Kia Corthron.

Corthron is a novelist and playwright. Her debut, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter,

won the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, was a New York Times Book Review

Editor’s Choice, and was recently cited by the Auraist substack as the American Debut

Novel of the Century. Her second novel, Moon and the Mars, published in 2021, was

positively reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, The Irish Times (Dublin), and elsewhere. In

2024, two of her plays had world premieres: Tempestuous Elements at D.C.’s Arena Stage

and Fish in New York City, a co-production of Keen Company and the Working Theater.

Other plays, including Breath, Boom, A Cool Dip in the Barren Saharan Crick, and Force

Continuum, have been produced in New York by Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre

Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club,

The Play Company; regionally by Eclipse Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory

Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Center Stage, Hartford Stage,

Children’s Theatre Company, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, New York Stage and Film; in

London by the Royal Court Theatre and Donmar Warehouse; and elsewhere. Awards

include the Windham Campbell Prize, Horton Foote Award, Flora Roberts Award, USArtists

Jane Addams Fellowship, McKnight National Residency. Edgar and Writers Guild

Outstanding Series awards for The Wire. She serves on the Dramatists Guild Council, is a

New Dramatists alumnus, and is a member of the Authors Guild.