Chicago-born playwright Craig Sodaro began writing plays in grade school and continued creating unusual dramatic pieces such as The Dismembered Pencil in high school. While attending Marquette University in Milwaukee, he studied playwriting and had several shows produced by the university theater company, the Marquette Players. With a degree in journalism and English, Sodaro began a teaching career that would last thirty-three years. During that time he continued to write plays, often for schools or theatrical groups with which he worked. This led to his first published play, Forlorn at the Fort in Plays magazine, a melodrama written for the Wyoming-based Frontier Outlaw Troupe which he directed for thirteen years. In 1976 his first full-length play, Tea and Arsenic, appeared, and since that time he has had over one hundred plays published by various play publishers. His plays Hush, Little Baby and Second Hand Kid were performed in New York and Los Angeles, and his works have been produced around the world. Eight of his plays have recently been translated into Dutch. Sodaro now writes full time and lives high in the Colorado Rockies with his wife, Sue.