Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, and poet. Her fifteen plays include In the Next Room (or the Vibrator Play), The Clean House, and Eurydice. She has been a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Tony Award nominee, and the recipient of the MacArthur “genius” Fellowship. Her plays have been produced on- and off-Broadway, around the country, internationally, and have been translated into many languages. Her book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time to Write was a New York Times Notable Book. Her other books include Smile: A Memoir, Letters from Max, with Max Ritvo, and 44 Poems for You. The Dreams I’ll Dream Tonight is her debut picture book. She has received the Steinberg Playwright Award, the Samuel French Award, the Feminist Press Under 40 Award, the National Theater Conference Person of the Year Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, a Whiting Award, a Lily Award, and a PEN/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for mid-career playwrights. She teaches at the Yale School of Drama, and she lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Tony Charuvastra, who is a child psychiatrist, and their three children. You can read more about her work at SarahRuhlPlaywright.com.

Sally Deng creates art for magazines, newspapers, books, and more in her Los Angeles studio. She is the author-illustrator of Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII, Warrior Princess: The Story of Khutulun, and The Erhu Sings and the illustrator of The Dreams I’ll Dream Tonight by Sarah Ruhl. She was selected by Forbes 30 Under 30 for the 2020 Art & Style list and was named a Young Guns 16 winner by The One Club for Creativity. Her art has been recognized and exhibited in galleries across the United States.