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Naomi F. Wallace

Naomi F. Wallace’s plays have been produced in the United Kingdom, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. Awards: Obie Award, Fellowship of Southern Writers Drama Award, MacArthur Fellowship. Wallace has received the inaugural Windham Campbell prize for drama, and an Arts and Letters Award in Literature.

Sept/Oct 2018

The Book of Mima

By Naomi F. Wallace

CAST THE MISSILE TIME Now and Then PLACE The imagined country of Yemen and its landscapes. Also other countries where the USA is dropping its bombs and/or firing its missiles. […]