CJ Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist. His plays have been produced internationally at theatres and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages (Atlanta), English Theater Berlin, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Adelaide Fringe, Brighton Festival, and Noorderzon Festival (the Netherlands), among others. His writing awards include the 2002 First of the Scotsman Fringe Firsts, Scotsman Fringe Firsts in 2002 and 2005, and the 2004 Best Play of the Adelaide Fringe award. His political satire has appeared on NPR Berlin, in CounterPunch, ColdType, The Unz Review, ZNet, and other publications, and has been widely translated. His debut novel, ZONE 23, was published in May 2017 by Snoggsworthy, Swaine & Cormorant Paperbacks.