Ana Castillo

Ana Castillo

female, 56 years old
Sapogonia, barrio, from Chicago, University of Bremen, Los Angeles Times, Master's Degree…BeforeColumbusFoundation
Ana Castillo (June 15, 1953-) is a celebrated poet, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Castillo was born and raised in Chicago. She has...
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

female
writer, Creek tribe, American, Tulsa, creek, Native American…BeforeColumbusFoundation
The love of language that Harjo possesses comes from her father's grandfather who was a full-blood Creek Baptist minister and her mother who...
Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan

female, 62 years old
environmentalist, Oklahoma writer, short stories, Colorado writer, American, chickasaw…BeforeColumbusFoundation
Linda Hogan (born 1947) is a Native American poet, storyteller, academic, playwright, novelist, environmentalist and writer of short stories.
Josip Novakovich

Josip Novakovich

male
Ingram Merrill, Whiting Writer's Award, National Endowment of the Arts, Best American Poetry, American Book Award, BeforeColumbusFoundation
Josip Novakovich is a Croatian-American writer. He has published a novel ("April Fool's Day"), three short story collections, two collections of...

Leanne Howe

female
writer, Native American, Choctaw, University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign, BeforeColumbusFoundation, American Book Award
LeAnne Howe is an author and scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma,...

Alexander Kuo

male
Washington State University, Changchun University, Lipstick and Other Stories, writer-in-residence, American Book Award, BeforeColumbusFoundation…rockefeller foundation
Alexander Kuo (born 1941 (?) in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American teacher, poet, fiction writer, and essayist of Chinese-American ancestry. He...
Sonia Sanchez

Sonia Sanchez

female, 75 years old
From Birmingham, Alabama, Howard University alumni, Alpha Kappa Alpha sister, poet, African American, Wilsonia Benita Driver
Sonia Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Sanchez attended public schools in New York City and then Hunter College, where she received a B.A....
Diana Abu-Jaber

Diana Abu-Jaber

female, 49 years old
University of Oregon faculty, Arab American, Oregon writer, novelist, From Syracuse, New York, University of Windsor alumni
Diana Abu-Jaber is the author of the novels Arabian Jazz and Crescent . Crescent was awarded the 2004 PEN Center USA Award for Literary Fiction and...
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

female
National Council, University of Hawaii, University of New Mexico, woman, ford, full professor at UCLA…Her Own Foundation, BeforeColumbusFoundation, Witter Bynner Foundation
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her books of poetry include �How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems;� �A Map to the New World: Poems;...
Amiri Baraka

Amiri Baraka

male
rockefeller foundation, State University of New York, City College of New York, Co-Director, Guggenheim Foundation, BeforeColumbusFoundation
Amiri Baraka , New Jersey Amiri Baraka, born in Newark, is a poet, writer, political activist, and teacher. In 1958 he founded Totem Press, which...