Jon Tuttle is Distinguished Professor of English at Francis Marion University, specializing in Modern and American Drama. He is also Director of University Honors, the Nellie Cooke Sparrow Writer-in-Residence, and an FMU Trustees Research Scholar. He has received the South Carolina Governor's Award in the Humanities and both the Founders Award and Lifetime Service Award from the South Carolina Theater Association and has served on the boards of the South Carolina Academy of Authors, the Florence Regional Arts Alliance, and the Jasper Project. He was for over a decade the Playwright-in-Residence and Literary Manager at Trustus Theater in Columbia, SC; some of his own plays are included in The Trustus Collection (Muddy Ford Press, 2019) and Two South Carolina Plays (Hub City Press, 2009). He also edited David Kranes: Selected Plays (Level 4, 2011).