W. David Hancock is an autistic fiction author and playwright whose theatrical work has radically challenged formal and narrative dramatic conventions. His genre-bending plays, often mixing visual arts, site-specific installations, and solo performance, collapse the distinction between artifice and reality. Hancock’s stories have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Hunger Mountain Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, and other journals. In a recent American Theatre essay, Thing Theory: a Taxonomy of Objects, Hancock argues for a more inclusive, neurodivergent dramaturgy. His honors include a Whiting Writers Award, the Hodder Fellowship, and two playwriting OBIE Awards (The Convention of Cartography and The Race of the Ark Tattoo.)