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P. Carl

P. Carl is a Senior Distinguished Artist in Residence, Department of Performing Arts, at Emerson College in Boston. He is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Becoming a Man: The Story of a Transition (Simon & Schuster, 2020) and the play adaptation of the book Becoming a Man, commissioned and produced by American Repertory Theater (ART), Harvard, in February of 2024. The play was nominated for Outstanding New Play by the Boston Theater Critics Association. He was the Spring 2020 Anschutz Fellow at Princeton University, awarded a 2017 Art of Change Fellowship from the Ford Foundation, the Berlin Prize fellowshipfrom the American Academy for the Fall of 2018, and the Andrew W. Mellon Creative Research Residency at the University of Washington. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, The Boston Globe Magazine, and Lit Hub. He is currently working on his next book, Vagrants, and a new play, Rare Birds, commissioned by ART.

Carl received a Bachelor's degree in English Literature and a Master's in Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame, and holds a PhD in Comparative Studies in Discourse and Society from the University of Minnesota. He was born in Elkhart, Indiana, and now lives in Rhode Island with his spouse, the writer Lynette D'Amico.