L.A. Kuemmel is a playwright-turned-novelist with a love of immersive world-building and strong female characters. At the age of 11 she discovered Robin McKinley’s The Hero and the Crown and became a life-long fantasy and sci-fi lover.
She grew up in small towns in the Mid-West and Deep South where she dreamed frequently of running away from home. Once in New York City she joined the anarchist collective of the WOW Cafe where her full-length plays, Thicker Than Water and I May Never Go Home, debuted, along with several comic skits and cabaret performances.
In 2006 she was honored as a Kendeda Playwright by the Alliance Theater of Atlanta for her ensemble historical drama Monongahela House. That same year her teleplay for “The Work of 50 Men” was awarded a Sloan Foundation grant for production at WQED. It aired on public television and garnered a Bronze Telly.
Now in Los Angeles, she has developed several screenplays and collaborated with Fell Swoop writer’s workshop on their staged productions. Kuemmel is a graduate of Playwrights Horizons Theater School at NYU and holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon School of Drama’s Dramatic Writing Program. Song of Reckoning is her first novel.
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