LYDIA R. DIAMOND is the author of Stick Fly (Northwestern, 2008), produced on Broadway in 2011, nominated in 2012 for an Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play, and winner of the 2010 LA Critics Circle Award for Playwriting, among other prizes. Her other plays include The Bluest Eye, The Gift Horse, Harriet Jacobs (Northwestern, 2011), The Inside, Stage Black, and Voyeurs de Venus. A former Radcliffe Institute Fellow and a graduate of Northwestern University, she has taught at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University, and Boston University.