Kiera Sky Torpie, hailing from Thornwood, New York, is a graduate of Tulane University where she obtained a degree in Linguistics and International Development. From an early age, Kira understood that writing had the power to connect. Her relationship with her incarcerated father was largely bound by letters. After her father’s death, she learned that writing can also heal. While at Tulane, she created a workshop for girls whose families had been impacted by incarceration. Last summer, she took her play, Sunny Makes a Scene, to the Festival Fringe in Edinburgh. The dark comedy follows a teenage girl as she wreaks havoc at her dad’s Irish Catholic wake. To address its theme of addiction, she collaborated with a local harm reduction organization that attended each performance and handed out overdose prevention resources to patrons as they left. Her goal is to create cathartic healing experiences for others through writing.  She currently works part-time as a House Manager at a non-profit theatre in New York. While living in Los Angeles, she was an Associate Producer for an un-scripted TV show on NBC, an Executive Assistant at HBO Max, and held various production assistant roles on commercials, short films, and music videos. Kiera will study Creative Writing at Queen’s University Belfast.