Nina-Marie Gardner is an American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter based in Paris. She is currently a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Kent University Paris School of Arts & Culture. A graduate of Yale University, her short stories, essays and reviews have been published in Necessary Fiction, 3AM Magazine, The Fix, The Frisky, Flavorpill and the anthologies Bedford Square and 3AM London, New York, Paris. In 2011, her debut novel Sherry & Narcotics was published by Future Fiction London, and the stage adaptation was staged in London as part of the Arcola Theatre’s inaugural PlayWROUGHT Festival. A recipient of the Royal Holloway International Excellence Award and a Crossland Research Fellowship, she holds a PhD in Drama and Theatre and served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Drama, Theatre & Dance at Royal Holloway, University of London from 2014-2018. She has also taught at Sciences Po University in Paris and the National Theatre in London. Her plays have been staged in London and Edinburgh, and she co-wrote the short film Speakeasy with director Alex Browning, which premiered at the Hospital Club 100 Awards and was bought by ShortsTV.  She has served on the Reader's Panel for the Royal National Theatre in London, the international literary award The First Pages Prize, the Verity Bargate Playwriting Award, and the Colchester Theatre Mercury/ Weinberger Playwriting Award. Her feature film script AGNES GRACE was selected for the 2022 Stowe Story Labs, and her 1 hour drama television pilot A CERTAIN AGE was a finalist in the Los Angeles Film Awards and a Screencraft and Vail Film Fest quarterfinalist.