Holly Hughes is a writer and performer. The author of Clit Notes: A Sapphic Sampler and coeditor of "O Solo Homo," "Animal Acts: Performing Species Today," and Memories of the Revolution: The First Ten Years of the WOW Café Theatre, she has been denounced on the floor of the Senate by Jesse Helms and has also received numerous awards, including two Village Voice Obies, numerous grants from the NEA, and a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship. When she is not directing the BFA in Interarts Performance at Michigan, Hughes is running with her Norfolk terriers.