May 9, 2010

PLAYWRIGHT | FICTION WRITER -James Magruder is a playwright, translator, and fiction writer. His stories have appeared or will appear in The Gettysburg Review, The Harrington Quarterly, Bloom, Subtropics, The Normal School, Mary, and the anthologies Boy Crazy and New Stories from the Midwest. He teaches translation and adaptation at the Yale School of Drama, where he received his doctorate. His produced translations and adaptations of works by Marivaux, Moliere, Lesage, Labiche, Gozzi, and Dickens have been produced on and off Broadway, across the country, and in Japan and Germany. He also teaches dramaturgy at Swarthmore College. His plays have been staged in Baltimore, Atlanta, and New York and published in The Art of the One-Act, Arts & Letters, and Third Coast. His writing has been supported by the Maryland State Arts Council, the New Harmony Project, the MacDowell Colony, where he was named a Thornton Wilder Fellow, the Ucross Foundation, the Blue Mountain Center, and the Jerome Foundation. The University of Wisconsin Press published his debut novel, Sugarless, last October. It was named one of “Twenty Indies to Watch” by Publishers Weekly. It is one of five nominees for a Lambda Literary Award and a semi-finalist for the Cabell First Novelist Award.