Katherine Swan is a playwright who lives in Chicago. Her work explores desire, creativity, and violence in the lives of women. Her plays include Some Other Woman Like Me, a finalist for the Henley Rose Award, and Act V, developed at A Red Orchid Theatre’s Incubator Series in Chicago. Her short plays have been performed nationally and internationally in London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, and New York, and her play Pony was a winner of the Carlow Little Theatre’s 2021-22 International One Act Play Competition in Ireland. Her plays have been anthologized by Smith & Kraus in their collections Best Ten-Minute Plays and Best Women’s Monologues. She is a member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playground Chicago Writers Pool.