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Bradley Wester/Contributed photo release continues. She is a three-time win- ner of the New Visions, New Voices honors from the Kennedy Center and a three-time winner of the American Alliance for Theatre and Education (AATE) Distinguished Play Award, the release points out. According to The New York Times, "She makes her points by not taking herself too seriously, even as she offers astute observations about environ- mental, racial and family matters." Hood began her professional life as a flight attendant for TWA. During a furlough, she worked in a bookstore and started writing her first novel, the release notes. When TWA personnel subsequently went on strike and all flight attendants were "replaced," she became a fulltime writer. Attendees are welcome to bring beach chairs, wine "and whatever for a evening in the arts as only the Hermitage can provide," Bruce E. Rodgers, executive director of the Hermitage, says in the release. "We love sharing our artists and their art. Always inspiring and exciting to see what and hear about what's next on their horizons." Sarasota News Leader March 21, 2014 Page 118