Nina-Marie Gardner is an award-winning novelist and playwright. A graduate of Yale University, her short stories, essays and reviews have been published in 3AM Magazine, The Fix, The Frisky, Flavorpill and the anthologies Bedford Square and 3AM London, New York, Paris. In 2011, her debut novel Sherry & Narcotics was published by Future Fiction London, and the stage adaptation was a finalist for the Verity Bargate Award (2014) and subsequently staged in London as part of the Arcola Theatre’s inaugural PlayWROUGHT Festival, directed by Yael Shavit and starring Lucy Ellinson and Michael Colgan. Her plays including The Land, Gabriel and Maggie/Maggie have also been staged at London’s Soho Theatre, The Clapham Omnibus, The BoilerHouse, and the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. She recently collaborated with the director Alex Browning as screenwriter of the short film Speakeasy, which premiered in London at The Hospital Club 100 Awards, and is now airing on Shorts TV. She holds a PhD in Drama and Theatre and is currently a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance. She is a recipient of the Royal Holloway International Excellence Award, and a Crossland Research Fellowship.

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Contact: nmgard@mac.com