Verburg, C. J.: - CJ Verburg is an award-winning playwright and director and the author of best-selling books including two international literature anthologies. She wrote her first prize-winning play at 16 and her second, a rock musical, in 1968. Alongside a career in publishing, she helped found the Provincetown Playwrights' Lab and headed theater companies in Provincetown, Bourne, and Cotuit. Meanwhile, as a freelance science editor and writer, she worked on projects from Powers of Ten (Scientific American Library) to Ghosts in the Mind's Machine (Norton). She instigated and produced most of Edward Gorey's original "entertainments" on Cape Cod, adapted Kurt Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle as a workshop for the Barnstable Comedy Club, and directed the unofficial U.S. debut of Peter Shaffer's The Gift of the Gorgon at the Cotuit Center for the Arts, among other projects. She's currently working on new plays and short and long fiction, including a historical saga set in the 1850s.