Michelle Carter is a lapsed fiction writer currently writing plays. She was one of 16 playwrights chosen from among 1200 applicants for Arielle Tepper's 2005 Summer Play Festival in New York and one of two selected from that group for a residency at the Donmar Warehouse in London. Her first play, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties, received the PEN USA Award for Drama in 2000; her second play, Ted Kaczynski Killed People With Bombs, received the PEN USA Award for Drama in 2003. Both plays premiered at San Francisco's Magic Theatre. Another play, Let the Pony Sing, was commissioned by the Mark Taper Forum and presented in the Taper's New Work Festival in March 2005 and nominated by the Taper for the Kesselring Prize. Snickerdoodles in Hell was produced at the Abingdon Theatre in New York in 2005. In addition to the PEN Award, Hillary and Soon-Yi Shop for Ties also won a Garland Award for playwriting, an American Theatre Critics Association Award nomination, and a Bay Area Critics Circle nomination for the score, which she co-composed with jazz artist Randy Craig. "Prometheus" appears in Plays for Actresses II (Eric Lane and Nina Shengold, editors, Vintage 2002). She has published novels with William Morrow and Penguin books as well as more than 30 short stories in magazines and anthologies. She is a professor in the Creative Writing program at San Francisco State University.
