Kathryn O'Sullivan

Kathryn OSullivans mystery novel Foal Play won the 2012 Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel Competition.  She is the Co-Executive Producer, Creator, and Writer of the multi-award-winning Western web series Thurston. Her works have been seen at the American Globe Theatre, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Flashpoints Mead Theatre Lab, The Source Theatre, The Theatre Lab, and at play and film festivals across the country.

She is the recipient of the Mary Marlin Fisher Play writing Award, an American Association of University Women Educational Foundation play writing grant, a Shubert Fellowship, and an Individual Artist Award in  Play writing from the Maryland State Arts Council. She was twice named Faculty of the Year at Northern Virginia Community College where she is a theatre professor and a Presidents Sabbatical Awardee.  She has collaborated with Paul Awad, her husband and an award-winning director and cinematographer, on a dozen projects including her play Lot Lizards which is published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2011 (Smith & Kraus).  Moving Day will be published in The Best Ten-Minute Plays 2014 (Smith & Kraus).  Murder on the Hoof,  the second book in the Colleen McCabe mystery series, will be out May 6, 2014.  She holds a BA from Boston College, an MA from Hofstra University, an MA from Loyola University Maryland, and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon Universitys School of Drama.  She is a member of The Dramatists Guild, Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Romance Writers of America.  She lives in Virginia with her husband and their rascally rescue cat, Oscar.