Monica Byrne is a playwright, novelist, and traveler based LQ Durham, North Carolina. Her debut novel The Girl in the Road was published by Penguin Random House LQ 2014. She wrote and performed science fiction stories at TED in Vancouver LQ both 2015 and 2016; and she's also published essays and short stories LQ The Atlantic, The Washing/on Post, VirginiaQuarter!J Review, WIRED,Electricliterature, The Baffler, Glimmer Train, The Rumpus, Shimmer, and Electric Velodpede. She's a playwright LQ residence at Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, which has produced Nightwork, Tarantino 's Yellow Speedo, and What Every Girl Should Know, which went on to productions at Impact! Theater in Berkeley and FringeNYC, where it received a Time Out New York Critic's Pick and Best Ensemble Award. She's received fellowships for writing from the Durham Arts Council, North Carolina Arts Council, Vermont Studio Center, Millay Colony for the Arts, Wellesley College, La Muse Inn and Artist Retreat, the Elsewhere Collaborative, and the Collider Project. She's traveled in Morocco, Italy, Ethiopia, Trinidad, India, Fiji, Samoa, The Cook Islands, Belize, Costa Rica, England, Scotland, Iran, Canada, Hong Kong, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines, and plans to travel in many more. She holds degrees in biochemistry from Wellesley and MIT.