E.M. Lewis (USA) is an award-winning playwright, teacher, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French.  She received the Steinberg Award and the Primus Prize from the American Theater Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the LA Drama Critics Circle, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and a place in the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.