About the Author

Gary Leon Hill is an award-winning playwright whose work has been produced at theaters throughout the country. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, AT&T, and The Pew Charitable Trusts. His plays include Food from Trash, Back to the Blanket, Say Grace, In a Beginning, and 8 Bob Off. A photographer and filmmaker, Hill worked early in his career with Robert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer on the films Life Dances On and Energy and How to Get It. He lives in New York City.