Curtright, Lauren

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» Abinader, Elmaz from Bios

Born in 1954 in a small town in Pennsylvania, Elmaz Abinader has always felt as if she lives in two worlds: one in her home and the other outside the doors.

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» Abu-Jaber, Diana from Bios
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» Adnan, Etel from Bios

Adnan has more than ten books of poetry and fiction published, including Paris When It's Naked, Of Cities and Women, and Sitt Marie Rose, which has been translated into over ten languages and is considered a classic of Middle Eastern literature.

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» Al-Shaykh, Hanan from Bios
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» Alexander, Margaret Abigail Walker from Bios
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» Brant, Beth (DEGONWADONTI) from Bios
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» Allen, Paula Gunn from Bios
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» Brooks, Gwendolyn from Bios

The most dominant theme in Brooks' work is the impact of ethnicity and life experiences on one's view of life.

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» Angelou, Maya from Bios

The life and work of Maya Angelou are fully intertwined. Angelou's poetry and personal narratives form a larger picture wherein the symbolic Maya Angelou rises to become a point of consciousness for African-American people, especially black women s...

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» Alba, Alicia Gaspar de from Bios

Alicia Gaspar de Alba is an award-winning novelist as well as a professor and poet.

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» Alexander, Meena from Bios

Alexander's writing is lyrical, poignant, and sensual, dealing with large themes, including fanaticism, ethnic intolerance, terrorism, interracial affairs and marriages. Alexander has given us an unsentimental, multifaceted portrait of what it means...

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» Alvarez, Julia from Bios

In a convocation speech delivered at Appalachian State University entitled "On Becoming a Butterfly," Alvarez says, "I believe stories have this power -- they enter us, they transport us, they change things inside us, so invisibly, so minutely, tha...

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» Ansa, Tina McElroy from Bios

Baby of the Family focuses on Lena's coming of age, finding out who she is and why she's different but not crazy, as her brothers wanted to believe. The novel explores Lena's life as she encounters ghosts and friends of all ages and socioec...

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» Armstrong, Jeanette from Bios

Through her writing, Armstrong gives an honest representation of the harsh realities of Indian life. But she also presents an optimistic outlook to people. She believes a "connection" between aboriginal and European people can be made.Through her writing, Armstrong gives an honest representation of the harsh realities of Indian life. But she also presents an optimistic outlook to people. She believes a "connection" between aboriginal and European people can be made.

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» Atefat-Peckham, Susan from Bios

Atefat-Peckham's poetry, as well as her choice of subject matter, has become even more meaningful to her since the events of September 11. As an Iranian, as well as a native New Yorker, the destruction of the World Trade Center profoundly affecte...

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» Bambara, Toni Cade from Bios

Toni Cade Bambara was a writer, activist, feminist, and filmmaker. In 1982, in a taped interview with Kay Bonetti, Bambara reflected on her work: "When I look back at my work with any little distance the two characteristics that jump out at me i...

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» Benitez, Sandra from Bios

Benítez is at her best when writing about the people in the country of her youth, El Salvador. When reading Benítez, one is struck by her ability to give a clear and thoughtful voice to people on both sides of the economic and politic...

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» Bennett, Gwendolyn from Bios

Although Bennett never published her own collection of poetry, she remained a strong influence during the Harlem Renaissance movement by energizing the community with poems about racial pride and Africa and celebrating blackness through romantic lyr...

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» Blaeser, Kimberly from Bios

Kimberly Blaeser, an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, grew up on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. She is of Anishinabe and German heritage. She articulates her dual heritage and its significance in the forms of poetry, pers...

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» Bland, Eleanor Taylor from Bios

Her novels have given Bland a vehicle through which she can address issues important to her. Her victims are often young, homeless, mentally ill, or elderly. According to Bland, "They are the people that are there that we don't want to see"

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» Bolton, Ruthie from Bios

Bolton's only work, Gal: A True Life, is a straightforward look into a poor, abused African-American girl growing up in the south in the sixties. Her story is of anguish and inspiration, despair and hope, but mostly of survival.

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» Bonner, Marita Odette from Bios

Many of Bonner's later writings reflected her Chicago environment. They dealt with color discrimination, poverty, and poor housing in the black communities, and showed the way in which an urban environment has a distinctive negative influence on ...

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» Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons (ZITKALA-SA) from Bios

As a person of mixed blood, her life could be looked upon as an example of the beauty and accomplishments that can be made when the two cultures can live cooperatively. Bonnin realized that to hate difference was to hate life; Bonnin was a lover of ...

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» Brainard, Cecilia Manguerra from Bios

As an author, editor, and teacher, Brainard is like the epic storyteller in her novel: she promotes Filipino American writers and Filipino American literature so that other readers may learn, recover, and remember.

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» Brand, Dionne from Bios

Brand situates her writing internationally, in the context of literature by other racial minority authors.

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» Broker, Ignatia from Bios

Throughout her life, Ignatia Broker strived to make life a little easier for her people. With the publication of her book, she made it possible for the stories of Oona and the old ways to live on forever.

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» Bunkley, Anita Richmond from Bios

The ethnic romance novels that Bunkley and others have written reflect contemporary middle class black people dealing with realistic issues in a romantic context. Ethnic romance writers' stories portray positive images of black people.

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» Butler, Octavia Estelle from Bios

"I'm not writing for some noble purpose, I just like telling a good story. If what I write about helps others understand this world we live in, so much the better for all of us," Octavia Butler told Robert McTyre. "Every story I write adds to me a ...

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» Campbell, Bebe Moore from Bios

Although two of Bebe Moore-Campbell's novels are based on historical events, she does not consider herself an historical novelist. The heart of her work focuses on interpersonal relationships. She explores the complexities that often exist between ...

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» Cary, Lorene from Bios

In her memoir Black Ice, Cary summarized this personal theme that appears in all of her work. She wrote, "I learned to hold myself to standards that were always just beyond my reach."

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» Castillo, Ana from Bios

Castillo believes that women have lost their sense of self on many levels, including psychologically, physically, and spiritually, and need to reclaim themselves. Castillo herself does this through her writing and activism.

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» Cervantes, Lorna Dee from Bios

The language and imagery that Cervantes uses to express a feminist and humanistic vision of her world has been well accepted not only within Chicano(a) literature, but among other American literatures.

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» Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung from Bios

Cha's output was varied, consisting of films and mixed-media performance pieces in addition to her written works. The primary theme of her artistic output was the dislocation -- cultural, geographic and social -- embodied by immigration.

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» Chase-Ribaud, Barbara from Bios
Riboud, with whom she had two children. They later divorced, and she married Sergio Tosi in 1981.

Because sculpting was the first art that she became successful with, her writing career may seem secondary. Chase-Riboud counters this: she says,...

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» Chavez, Denise from Bios

Although her poetry, short stories, and novels seem to shift focus from a broad view of the societal and economic issues of Chicano culture to a self-reflective exploration of women and service, Chávez does not cease to embrace her Chicano h...

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» Chrystos from Bios

Chrystos fights the victimization and colonization of minority people in terms of language. She challenges conventional genre categorizations of poetry and prose as well as rules of grammar, punctuation, even typography. Interestingly, she often us...

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» Cisneros, Sandra from Bios

Cisneros' writing has been shaped by her experiences. Because of her unique background, Cisneros is very different from traditional American writers. She has something to say that they don't know about. She also has her own way of saying it.

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» Cliff, Michelle from Bios

Cliff's ability to imaginatively recreate the disturbing images of the past has earned her critical acclaim. While Cliff's writing is an important and valuable addition to criticism of the bloody past of the Americas, it is not intended for those u...

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» Clifton, Lucille from Bios

Lucille's poetry is straightforward and makes use of vernacular speech. Her poems contain compassion and a high level of emotion, which is uniquely American. Her African roots and her personal history have become the basis of her writing.

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» Cofer, Judith Ortiz from Bios

Ortiz Cofer's explorations of identity formations are not only found in the context of her memories, but also exist in the spaces created between them. Again, she uses language to decipher these spaces.

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» Conde, Maryse from Bios

"I am not a messenger writer. I write for me, to help me comprehend and support the life."

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» Cook-Lynn, Elizabeth from Bios

Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, a member of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, is a woman and writer of distinct purpose.

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» Cooper, Joan California from Bios

In the past twenty years, through her novels and her stories, J. California Cooper has become recognized as one of America's premier storytellers. "Cooper's style is deceptively simple and direct, and the vale of tears in which her characters resid...

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» Corpi, Lucha from Bios

By giving voice to individuals commonly overlooked by the dominant culture, she identifies and gives presence to Chicanas, not only in literature, but also in a culture that is just opening its eyes to diversity.

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» Cortez, Jayne from Bios

Poet, musician, activist, and entrepreneur Jayne Cortez is an accomplished woman who uses her work to address social problems in the U.S. and around the world. Over the last 30 years, she has contributed greatly to the struggle for racial and gende...

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» Craft, Ellen from Bios

Thus, even momentarily silenced, Ellen's voice is readily available for audiences today.

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» Danicat, Edwidge from Bios

In an interview for NPR, Danticat said this of her book: "I wanted to raise the voice of a lot of the people that I knew growing up, and this was, for the most part, . . . poor people who had extraordinary dreams but also very amazing obstacles."

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» Davis, Angela Yvonne from Bios

Today, Angela Y. Davis continues to be a strong force for political and social activism, as well as the reformation of the prison industrial complex. She is also an accomplished cultural theorist.

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» De Hoyos, Angela from Bios

De Hoyos writes from a political stance to a philosophical position and then back again to a political point of view. Her poetry offers us the intimate biography of common and universal experiences.

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» Deloria, Ella Cara from Bios

From the 1950's until her own death in 1971, Deloria maintained her ties to her home places and her community, continuing her work as a lecturer, researcher, and consultant and building upon her reputation as a leading authority on Lakota and Dakota...

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» Desai, Anita from Bios

Desai is praised for her broad understanding on intellectual issues, and for her ability to portray her country so vividly with the way the eastern and western cultures have blended there.

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» Douglass, Sarah Mapps from Bios

African-American abolitionist, teacher, writer, and public lecturer

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» Dove, Rita from Bios

Dove explains their viewpoints regarding each other and life with a simple, yet elegant and realistic prose.

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