Kia Corthron

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Kia Corthron (born May 13, 1961) is an American playwright, activist, television writer, and novelist. She received the 2014 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize in Drama which is one of the largest prizes in the world of its kind.^[1] In 2022, her hometown newspaper named Corthron one of the region's 30 most influential people of color.^[2]