Kirk Lynn (born May 8, 1972) is a playwright and novelist who lives in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Douglas MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas in 1990. He is one of the founders of Rude Mechanicals theater company and he has been working with this collaborative theater company since 1996. He published his first novel, Rules for Werewolves, in 2015.In 2011, he was named one of the United States Artists Jeanne and Michael Klein Fellows for the category of Theater Arts.Lynn is head of Playwriting and Directing in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. He is married to the poet Carrie Fountain.