Naomi Wallace

Naomi Wallace is a poet and playwright from Prospect, Kentucky. Her plays include: In The Heart of America , One Flea Spare , Slaughter City , The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek and The War Boys . Her stage adaption of Willam Wharton 's novel Birdy opened on the West End in London in 1997. Her book of poetry To Dance on a Stony Field was published in the United Kingdom in 1995. She was a 1999 recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.