Dana L. Stringer’s Followers

None yet.

Dana’s Bookshelves

to-read (1)
currently-reading (0)
read (1)
did-not-finish (0)

Dana L. Stringer

Goodreads Author

Born

in Louisville, The United States

Website

http://www.danastringer.com

Twitter

DanaLStringer

Genre

Poetry, Memoir, Nonfiction

Influences

June Jordan, Lucille Clifton, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, James Baldw ...more

Member Since

March 2014

URL

https://www.goodreads.com/dana_stringer

edit data

Dana L. Stringer is an Atlanta-based playwright, monologist, teaching artist, poet, and instructor with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is an associate artist at Out of Hand Theater, which has afforded her writing commissions for tailored audiences at Lyft, Audible, BlackRock, Big Cities Health Coalition, Arbor Company, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta, Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals, and a host of other companies and organizations. Additional writing commissions include Horizon Theatre Company, Historic Oakland Foundation, True Colors Theatre, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Dana has been a guest artist and/or prese Dana L. Stringer is an Atlanta-based playwright, monologist, teaching artist, poet, and instructor with a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is an associate artist at Out of Hand Theater, which has afforded her writing commissions for tailored audiences at Lyft, Audible, BlackRock, Big Cities Health Coalition, Arbor Company, Emory University’s Goizueta Business School, Corporate Volunteer Council of Atlanta, Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals, and a host of other companies and organizations. Additional writing commissions include Horizon Theatre Company, Historic Oakland Foundation, True Colors Theatre, and Alabama Shakespeare Festival.

Dana has been a guest artist and/or presenter at The Letters Festival, Moving Her Forward Summit (Embodied Narratives), Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival (American College Theatre Festival), Essential Theatre’s Introduction to Playwriting, Theatrical Outfit’s Downtown Dialogues, and True Colors Theatre’s Next Gen Playwrights.

Her most recent play, Mother Machine, will have a public reading at Horizon Theatre Company (2026). Her play, The Line, was selected for development in the 2024 Ethel Woolson Lab with Working Title Playwrights, which culminated in a staged reading at The Balzer Theater. Her play, We the Village, was selected for Theatrical Outfit’s Made in Atlanta new play development program and the Unexpected Play Festival (2020), as well as Working Title Playwright’s First Light Reading Series (2018). A combination of her plays, public readings (live and virtual), monologues, and interdisciplinary art have been produced by Theatrical Outfit, The Billie Holiday Theatre, Black Theatre Network, Out of Hand Theater, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Vanguard Repertory Company, Ain’t I a Woman Playfest, Blue Pearl Theatrics, National Black Theatre Festival, Fade to Black Play Festival, MoJo Fest, Coleman & Smith Artistic Company, and the NAACP 10-Minute Play Festival.

Dana is a Cave Canem fellow and the author of the poetry chapbook In Between Faith. Her poetry has also been published numerous anthologies and journals like Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, African American Review, Rogue Agent, Blackberry: a magazine, and For Harriett.
...more

Combine Editions
Dana L. Stringer’s books

Average rating: 3.95 · 19 ratings · 10 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Marked by Scorn: An Anthology Featuring Non-Traditional Relationships by Dominica Malcolm (Goodreads Author) (Editor/Contributor), Kelly Burke (Contributor), Jeremiah Murphy (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boundaries & Borders: A Literary Exploration of Global Voices by OyaBisi Ideraabdullah (Curator), Kim Brandon (Goodreads Author), Aimee Suzara it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Between Faith 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.

Dana’s Recent Updates

Dana wants to read Kin by Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Oct 13, 2026 09:11AM · like · preview book See a Problem? We’d love your help. Let us know what’s wrong with this preview of Kin by Tayari Jones. Problem: Details (if other): Thanks for telling us about the problem. Not the book you’re looking for? Preview — Kin by Tayari Jones <iframe sandbox id="wrongBookKindlePreviewScreen">