Brighde Mullins
Playwright and poet Brighde Mullins was born in Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and raised in Las Vegas. She earned a BA at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas and MFAs at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and the Yale School of Drama.
Mullins’s poetry layers emotional and urban landscapes. She is the author of the Pushcart Prize–nominated chapbook Water Stories (2004), and her poetry has been included in Best American Poetry (1994 and 1998). She has written more than a dozen plays, which have been produced in London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, including the Pinter Review Gold Medal–winner Fire Eater (2003).
Her honors include fellowships from United States Artists, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Will Glickman Award and a Jane Chambers Award. Mullins has taught at Brown University, Harvard University, the California Institute for the Arts, and the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles.
Mullins’s poetry layers emotional and urban landscapes. She is the author of the Pushcart Prize–nominated chapbook Water Stories (2004), and her poetry has been included in Best American Poetry (1994 and 1998). She has written more than a dozen plays, which have been produced in London, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, including the Pinter Review Gold Medal–winner Fire Eater (2003).
Her honors include fellowships from United States Artists, the Whiting Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as a Will Glickman Award and a Jane Chambers Award. Mullins has taught at Brown University, Harvard University, the California Institute for the Arts, and the University of Southern California. She lives in Los Angeles.