Jan Henson Dow has won more than 150 national playwriting competitions, awards, and honors, including an NBC New Voices Award. Her plays have received numerous productions, workshops, and staged readings around the country, and her full-length plays have been published by Samuel French and Popular Play Service. As a Professor at Western Connecticut State University, Dow directed the Playwriting Workshops and co-produced Western's Festival of New Plays. She has been the recipient of a number of playwriting grants, as well as grants for the new play festivals. She also taught playwriting workshops at the Osher Life Long Learning Institute at the University of South Carolina and at workshops around the country. Her articles and poems have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Dramatists Guild Quarterly, Kansas Quarterly, and Indiana Review. She co-authored Writing the Award Winning Play with Shannon Michal Dow, and they have just completed their first novel, The Darkest Lies. Jan is a member of the Dramatists Guild.