Yale University has announced the eight recipients of the 2026 Windham-Campbell Prizes, one of the world’s most significant international literary awards. The prizes were established in 2013 through a gift from writer Donald Windham in memory of Sandy Campbell, his partner of 40 years. Administered by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, part of Yale Library, they are conferred annually to writers working in English anywhere in the world in fiction, nonfiction, drama, and poetry. Each winner receives $175,000 to support their work.
Christina Anderson, a playwright, screenwriter, and educator, was one of two winners of the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama. A Tony nominated writer for Outstanding Book of a Broadway musical, Anderson has taught playwriting at Rutgers University in New Jersey, Purchase College of the State University of New York, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and the Yale School of Drama. She also served as the interim head of playwriting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
A native of Kansas, Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree from Brown University and a master of fine arts degree in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama.
