Anders Lustgarten is a playwright and novelist. He won the Catherine Johnson Award for A Day at the Racists and won the Harold Pinter Playwriting Award for If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep. His play Lampedusa has been performed in forty countries.

Prior to becoming a writer, Anders was an international 400m runner and a teacher of people on death row in California. Three Burials is his debut novel.