Karen Hartman's plays, which include Donna Wants (2006), Going Gone (2004), Leah's Train (2000), Girl Under Grain (2000), Alice: Tales of a Curious Girl (1999) and Gum (1999), have been mounted by more than 40 companies. She wrote the libretto for the Grahm Reynolds opera Motherbone (2002). Honors include the Daryl Roth Creative Spirit Award, a Hodder Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship, a Playwrights' Center Jerome Fellowship and a writing residency at London's Royal National Theatre.