Jennifer O'Grady (she/her) is a playwright and poet whose plays are produced across the U.S. and internationally. Full-length plays include FERTILE GROUND (2022 O'Neill Semifinalist); CHARLOTTE'S LETTERS (Rising Artist Award; Henley Rose Award; NEWvember Festival Dublin; O'Neill Semifinalist and other honors); PARANORMAL LOVE (MTWorks Newborn Winner; NEWvember Finalist; Pandora's Box Honorable Mention and other honors); JUGGLING WITH MR. FIELDS (SWTP Finalist); ELLERY (Bechdel Group selection) and others. Her short plays have won audience-choice and other awards and are published in multiple editions of The Best Ten-Minute Plays (S&K) and Best New Ten-Minute Plays (Applause) including the 2021 volumes of each. Her plays are also included in multiple editions of The Best Women's Stage Monologues, as well as Best Contemporary Monologues for Women, Stage It! 3, some scripts literary magazine, Feels Blind Literary and other publications. Presenting theaters include The Irish Rep, 6th Street Playhouse, Attic Salt Theatre, Short + Sweet, Weathervane Playhouse, Rover Dramawerks, Lakeshore Players, The Playhouse at White Lake, Heartland Theatre Company, Gi60, Brave New World Rep, KIT, PlayZoomers, Theatre Three and many others, along with schools and colleges around the U.S. and overseas. Jennifer is also an award-winning poet and author of the poetry books WHITE (Mid-List First Series Award for Poetry) and EXCLUSIONS & LIMITATIONS (Plume Editions/MadHat Press). Her poems appear in numerous places including Poetry, Harper's, The New Republic, The Kenyon Review, The Writer's Almanac, Poetry Daily and American Poetry: The Next Generation. She holds an MFA in poetry from Columbia University and a BA from Vassar. She and her family live near NYC. (www.jenniferogrady.net)