Jeannine Wilkins was twice a finalist for the Rupert Hughes award at the Maui Writer’s Conference and won first place for Beneath the Starry Flag at the Southwest Writer’s Conferen...view moreJeannine Wilkins was twice a finalist for the Rupert Hughes award at the Maui Writer’s Conference and won first place for Beneath the Starry Flag at the Southwest Writer’s Conference. She received the Shubert Fellowship and the Feldman Award for playwriting at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where she received her master’s degree and a second Shubert Fellowship at Ohio State University, where she earned her doctorate. She worked as a marketing and public relations professional while writing Beneath the Starry Flag.view less