A.E. Edwards is a published poet and playwright. Her plays have been produced nationally, namely one entitled "Bear State of Mind", a play for young audiences, produced by Walton Arts Center in Fayetteville and funded by the Arkansas Arts Council and the Mid-America Arts Alliance Innovation Grant. She is currently the Vice Chair for the Region VI New Playwriting Program for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Aside from her work in theatre, Edwards has been writing and publishing poetry since she was in seventh grade. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Fine Arts in Playwriting. She is currently the head of the Theatre department at Northwest Arkansas Community College. She lives in a small community in the Ozark mountains in Northwest Arkansas with her husband, an artist and professor, of fourteen years, and their four children.