Daria Polatin

Daria Polatin is an award-winning playwright and television writer, whose play Palmyra is about a young woman who joins ISIS. She holds an MFA from Columbia University.

She is a founding member of The Kilroys, an advocacy group for female and trans writers that promotes gender equality in the American theater, and is a writer for the Amazon TV series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan, starring John Krasinski.

Daria is of Egyptian heritage and grew up traveling on five continents, loves hiking and inventing recipes, and lives in Los Angeles. Devil in Ohio is her debut novel.