About the Author

Irene O’Garden has won or been nominated for prizes in nearly every writing category from stage to e-screen, hardcovers, and children’s books, as well as literary magazines and anthologies. Her critically-acclaimed play Women On Fire (Samuel French), starring Judith Ivey, played sold-out houses at Off-Broadway’s Cherry Lane Theatre and was nominated for a Lucille Lortel Award. Her latest play, Little Heart, about artist Corita Kent, won her a Berilla Kerr Playwriting Fellowship and was awarded full development at the New Harmony Play Project.

O’Garden was awarded a Pushcart Prize for her lyric essay “Glad to Be Human” (Untreed Reads). Harper published her first memoir Fat Girl, and Nirala Press recently published her book Fulcrum, Selected Poems, which contains her prizewinning poem “Nonfiction.” “Morning Coffee” recently won the Scott Meyer Award. Her poems and essays have been featured in dozens of literary journals and award-winning anthologies (including A Slant of Light, winner of the USA Book Award for Best Anthology), and she has been honored with an Alice Desmond Award and an Oppenheimer for her children’s books.

O’Garden has appeared at top literary venues: including The Player’s Club, The National Arts Club, the Bowery Poetry Club, the Nuyorican Poetry Café, and KGB in Manhattan; The Poetry Café, Mycenae House, and Vinyl Deptford in London; and recently in Jerusalem. She’s a regular contributor to 650: Where Writers Read in Manhattan and Sarah Lawrence College, and she has received several grants from Poets and Writers. O’Garden has lived joyfully with her husband John Pielmeier for forty years. Most known for his play Agnes of God, John also writes movies, miniseries, and novels (Hook’s Tale, Scribner). His stage adaptation of The Exorcist ran in London’s West End (2017–18) and opens in 2019 in New York.

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