Susan Nussbaum (Writer, Producer, Interviewee) is a Chicago-based playwright, novelist and longtime disability rights and culture activist. She won Barbara Kingsolver’s 2012 PEN/Bellwether Prize for her novel Good Kings Bad Kings, also a 2013 Indie Best Pick and one of Booklist’s Top Ten First Novels of 2013. Her work as a playwright has been seen in many Chicago theaters, including Victory Gardens, Second City, Steppenwolf, the Goodman Theater as well as theaters around the U.S. Her play Mishuganismo was published in Staring Back: The Disability Experience from the Inside Out and Beyond Victims and Villains: Contemporary Plays by Disabled Playwrights published her play No One As Nasty. Nussbaum worked for many years at Access Living, a disability rights organization. For her innovative work with disabled teenage girls, Nussbaum was chosen for the 2007 Chicago Girls Coalition Woman in the Field Award, by the 2008 Utne Reader as one of 50 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World, and for the Chicago Foundation for Women’s Impact Award in 2015.