Darcy Parker Bruce is a graduate of the MFA Playwriting program at Smith College. In the summer they join the Sewanee Writers’ Conference as part of their staff. Darcy was the recipient of a 2017 Tennessee Williams Scholarship through the Sewanee Writers’ Conference and was a 2019 LAMBDA Literary Fellow. In 2018 they were granted ATHE’s Judith Royer Award For Excellence in Theater for their play SOLDIER POET. They are currently working on several projects including a cycle of plays investigating the relationship between small towns, queers, and American Glory. Their most recent commission, TO THE MOON AND BACK, opened at Chester Theater Company in August of 2022. Their work can now be purchased through Broadway Play Publishing. They are most recently Writing-in-Residence with Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the Gullkistan Center for Creativity in Iceland.