MO HOLMES is a black queer Southern playwright, librettist and dramaturg, born in San Antonio and raised on the long stretch of road from Texas to Alabama. Her full-length plays include AMANDA (development: The Bushwick Starr, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vertigo Theatre; honors: Alpine Fellowship Theatre Prize); STRIVERS (honors: Next Wave Initiative Lorraine Hansberry Award, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist); and WE SO SHORT (development: Playwrights’ Center Many Voices Mentorship; honors: Jane Chambers finalist, O’Neill National Playwrights Conference semi-finalist). Her short plays include MALACHI LIKE A REQUIEM FOR A GLACIER (honors: DePaul University’s Climate Action New Play Collective finalist, Jewish Plays Project’s On One Foot Ten Minute Play Festival semi-finalist). Her other writing has been developed and/or presented at The Fire This Time Festival, Sam French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, Minnesota Opera, and Atlanta Opera. As a dramaturg and teaching artist, she has supported new play development at Good Apples Collective, the Playwrights’ Center, Guthrie Theater, Jungle Theater, Horizon Theatre Company and Columbia. In addition to her graduate studies, she is an Undergraduate Writing Program Teaching Fellow at Columbia.