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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. In 2022, her hometown newspaper named Corthron one of the region's 30 most influential people of color.
Kia Corthron is a singular crucial creative artist with enormous vitality, re-imagining the real life of New York City rooted in new histories. —Sarah Schulman, author of Let the Record Show Moon and the Mars is an immersive read, propelling the reader into New York's Five Points district between the years 1857-1863, as the nation marches ...
Kia Corthron. The highly anticipated new novel from the winner of the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize examines NYC and America in the burgeoning moments before the start of the Civil War through the eyes of a young biracial girl.
Kia Corthron. KIA CORTHRON's debut novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, was the winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice. She was the 2017 Bread Loaf Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel.
Playwright turned novelist Kia Corthron discusses her process in writing her new literary fiction novel, Moon and the Mars.
Kia Corthron’s debut novel, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter, was the winner of the 2016 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice. She was the 2017 Bread Loaf Shane Stevens Fellow in the Novel.
Kia Corthron is a playwright and novelist. Moon and the Mars , her second novel, was released in August 2021. Her debut, The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter , was the winner of the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and a New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice.
