Ariadne Blayde

Ariadne Blayde is a playwright and fiction writer. Her play “The Other Room” won the VSA Playwright Discovery Award and has been produced hundreds of times around the world. Her plays have been shortlisted by Lark Playwright’s Week, The Tennessee Williams Festival, and more, and her fiction has been published in Parhelion Literary Magazine, the Fountain Magazine, and various anthologies. Her story “Shinichi’s Tricycle” won the 2020 Quantum Shorts Competition’s People’s Choice Award. Ariadne moonlights as a ghost tour guide in New Orleans. Her debut novel Ash Tuesday, about the ghosts of New Orleans’ French Quarter and the eccentric outcasts who tell their stories for a living, is available wherever books are sold. www.ariadneblayde.com