Ron Destro is a playwright and novelist. He received the Kennedy Center New American Play Award for his stage play HIROSHIMA, for which Yoko Ono wrote the original score, for its off-Broadway run. He and his debut novel, THE STARRE, THE MOONE, THE SUNNE, along with its audiobook narrated by Sir Derek Jacobi, were named Best New Author, Book of the Year 2nd Runner-Up, Audiobook of the Year, and Hawthorne Prize Finalist. His writing mentors include Pulitzer Prize-winner Tad Mosel, Jack Gelber, and Robert Hedley at the Univ. of Iowa’s Writers’ Program.