Charissa Menefee is a poet, playwright, and theatre maker. She is co-director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing & Environment at Iowa State University and artistic director of The EcoTheatre Lab. She is a recipient of a 2020-21 EST/Sloan Project Commission and has been writer-in-residence at the Utah Shakespeare Festival's New American Playwrights Project and Fairhope Center for the Writing Arts.