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Dan O’Brien is a playwright, poet, and nonfiction writer whose recognition for playwriting includes a Guggenheim Fellowship, two PEN America Awards, and for poetry the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. His play Newtown is the recipient of the 2024 Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation’s Theatre Visions Fund Award. O’Brien’s poetry collections are Flying on Easter and Other Poems (Poetry London Editions), Survivor’s Notebook (Acre Books), Our Cancers (Acre Books), Scarsdale (CB Editions / Measure Press), New Life (CB Editions / Hanging Loose Press), and War Reporter (CB Editions / Hanging Loose Press). In 2021 a collection of O’Brien’s essays on playwriting, A Story That Happens, was published in the UK by CB Editions, and in the US by Dalkey Archive Press. In 2023 he published his memoir From Scarsdale: A Childhood and a collection of plays, True Story: A Trilogy, both with Dalkey Archive Press. He has taught playwriting at Princeton University, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and elsewhere. Originally from New York, O’Brien lives in Los Angeles with his wife and daughter.