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A lot of artists will tell you an inner voice propels them to create. The Asheville playwright Jamie Knox says, for her, it’s often a voice that isn’t her own.

“I connect on a different level to people that have come before, stories that never got to be told,” she said. “I’ll have something come and sit on my shoulder and kinda tap at me and it’s like write this play, it’s called this, and I’m like, ‘I’m not qualified to write that play. I don’t know the experience of Armenian men,’ or whatever it is. But spiritually and creatively, the practical Jamie Knox shuts down and something else takes over.”