Bil Wright is an award-winning novelist and playwright. He is the author of the acclaimed novels When the Black Girl Sings, Sunday You Learn How to Box, and Putting Makeup on the Fat Boy, which won the Lambda Literary and Stonewall Awards. His other awards include a 2011 GLAAD nomination, a Coretta King Celebrating the Dream Award, a LAMI (La Mama Playwriting Award), and the Jerome Foundation Fellowship. He has also been published in multiple anthologies, including The Letter and Black Like Us. As a playwright and director, he has won awards and fellowships for works that include This One Girl’s Story, To the Light: A Celebration of the Friendship of James Baldwin and Painter Beauford Delaney, and Bloodsummer Rituals, a play based on the life of poet Audre Lorde. He has been awarded the Millay Fellowship and Edward Albee Fellowship, and was selected to direct for the Obie Award-winning “48 Hours in Harlem” Festival.