I was teaching a course that investigated Blackface Minstrelsy and Wild West Shows and some of the students proclaimed that they would never have acted in those kinds of shows. What was your inspiration for Redwood and Wildfire? Her latest novel, Redwood and Wildfire, is the winner of 2011 Otherwise Award and the Carl Brandon Kindred Award, and she recently talked about it with Daryl Maxwell for the LAPL Blog. She has received the International Association of the Fantastic in the Arts Distinguished Scholarship Award for outstanding contributions to the criticism of the fantastic. In her spare time, she is the Louise Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and Africana Studies at Smith College. Dick and Otherwise awards, and winner of the Carl Brandon Parallax Award. She is the author of Mindscape, shortlisted for the Phillip K. Andrea Hairston is a novelist, essayist, playwright, and the Artistic Director of Chrysalis Theatre.
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