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About the presenterGary Earl Ross
Gary Earl Ross is a retired University at Buffalo professor and author of the books The Wheel of Desire, Shimmerville, and Blackbird Rising, and the plays Sleepwalker, Picture Perfect, The Best Woman, Murder Squared, The Scavenger’s Daughter, and Matter of Intent, winner of the Edgar Award from Mystery Writers of America. Other honors include the Emanuel Fried Outstanding New Play Award, a LIFT Fiction Fellowship, a Saltonstall Foundation Playwriting Fellowship, and public radio commentary awards from the New York Associated Press and the New York Broadcasters Association. Ross is a member of the Just Buffalo Literary Center, the Dramatists Guild of America, Mystery Writers of America, Ujima Theater Company (where he is resident playwright), and MAPACA, for which he has served as president, Almanack editor, and area chair for Film and for Comics-Cartoons-&-Video-Games.