The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

Christina Anderson, a 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize recipient for Drama, talks with Michael Kelleher about Wallace Shawn's seminal, strange, and recently-revived 1990 monologue The Fever.

Christina Anderson is a playwright, tv writer, screenwriter, and educator. Her work has been produced across the country including theaters such as Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, and Yale Rep. A Tony nominated writer for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has received the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award, the Horton Foote Prize, the United States Artists Fellowship, MacDowell Fellowship, Lily Awards Harper Lee Prize, Herb Alpert nomination, Barrymore Nomination for Outstanding New Play, and New Dramatist residency. She’s taught playwriting at Rutgers University, SUNY Purchase, Wesleyan University, Yale School of Drama, and served as the interim Head of Playwriting at Brown University. An avid photographer for nearly ten years, the Magnum award review described Christina's work as "compelling" and "poignant." Since 2019, she has produced hip hop instrumentals under the moniker Purely Magenta.
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Karen Solie, recipient of a 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Poetry, talks with prize director Michael Kelleher about Nobel laureate Tomas Tranströmer's Selected Poems.

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Hosted by Michael Kelleher
Theme music by Dani Lencioni
Produced and edited by Drew Broussard
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The new season of The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast kicks off with Lucy Sante, recipient of a 2026 Windham-Campbell Prize for Non-fiction, talking with Prize Director Michael Kelleher about the long-out-of-print and tremendously influential An Anthology of New York Poets, edited by Ron Padgett and David Shapiro.

The Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast is a production of Literary Hub
Hosted by Michael Kelleher
Theme music by Dani Lencioni
Produced and edited by Drew Broussard
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Winter comes once again to an end, or something close to it — and so too does our winter mini-series, with Marina Carr (recipient of a 2017 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama) chatting with prize director Michael Kelleher about Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel, To the Lighthouse.

Marina Carr was born in 1964 and grew up in County Offaly. She graduated from UCD in 1987. Her plays include Low in the Dark, This Love Thing, Ullaloo, The Mai (Best New Play, Dublin Theatre Festival), Portia Coughlan (Susan Smith Blackburn Award), By The Bog of Cats (Irish Times/ ESB Award for Best New Play), On Raftery’s Hill, Woman and Scarecrow, a version of Hecuba, and Gilgamesh. She has been Writer-in-Residence at Trinity College, the Abbey Theatre, Princeton University and was the first John McGahern Writer-in-Residence in St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra/DCU. Marina Carr is a member of Aosdána and lives with her family in Dublin.

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The winter mini-season rolls on with Michael R. Jackson, recipient of a 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, talking to prize director Michael Kelleher about Sam Greenlee's 1969 cult-classic novel, The Spook Who Sat By the Door.

Michael R. Jackson is the writer and composer of the Pulitzer and Tony-winning A Strange Loop as well as White Girl in Danger. Most recently, he wrote the libretto for Consequences in Sue (which just premiered in Philadelphia). He also wrote lyrics and co-wrote the book for the musical adaptation of the 2007 horror film Teeth with composer and co-bookwriter Anna K. Jacobs. He holds a BFA and MFA in playwriting and Musical Theatre Writing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. He has received a Jonathan Larson Grant, a Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award, an ASCAP Foundation Harold Adamson Award, a Dramatist Guild fellowship, and was the 2017 Williamstown Theatre Festival Playwright-In-Residence.
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