Dorothy Fortenberry is a playwright, screenwriter, and essayist. She spent four seasons as a writer/producer on Hulu’s acclaimed series The Handmaid’s Tale. Her most recent work was as writer and Executive Producer of Extrapolations, the first television drama centered entirely around climate change, for Apple TV +. She is the 2021 laureate of the George W. Hunt, S.J., Prize for Journalism, Arts & Letters for outstanding work in the category of fiction writer or dramatist.