J.S. Kierland

J.S. Kierland is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and did postgrad at Hunter College, where he won the New York City Playwright’s Award and was admitted into Sigma Tau Delta. He was also given a full scholarship and fellowships to the Yale Drama School, and after receiving his MFA, became playwright-in-residence at Lincoln Center, Brandeis University and the Lab Theatre. He has published a novella, edited two books of one-act plays, and there are over 125 of his short stories in literary anthologies, reviews and magazines in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, including Playboy, Fiction International, Colere, Trajectory, International Short Story, and other leading literary reviews. 15 of his BEST SHORT STORIES was published in 2014 by Underground Voices, and his novella Hard to Learn was published as an e-book. He has also edited two Best Plays of the Los Angeles Actor’s Theatre and has just completed a novel.