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Sonia Sanchez is one of the most highly regarded poets of our time. She has penned more than 12 books, both poetry and novels, along with several children's books. She is an NAACP Image Award nominee and has received numerous honors and awards. She has lectured at hundreds of universities globally and is a winner of the Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal. Currently, Ms. Sanchez is working on a personal memoir, among other distinguished projects.
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Jill Bialosky received a master of arts degree from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University and a master of fine arts degree from University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her first collection of poems, The End of Desire: Poems, was published by in 1997, and Wanting a Child, which Ms. Bialosky co-edited and introduced with Helen Schulman, was published in 1998. Ms. Bialosky has received a number of awards including the Elliot Coleman Award in Poetry. She is an editor at W. W. Norton & Company in New York City. |
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As an editor and author, Marilyn Chin has been published many times. Among her critically acclaimed books are The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty and Rhapsody in Plain Yellow. Her honors include the National Endowment for the Arts Writing Fellowship, and she is a professor in the MFA program at San Diego University. |
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Lee Ann Brown is an accomplished book author and a filmmaker and performance artist. Her first book, Polyverse, won the New American Poetry Series Award. Most recently, Ms. Brown was the star performer at a Lincoln Center poetry program. She is founder/editor of the small press Tender Buttons and is a professor at St. John's University in New York City. |
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Loose Woman and The House on Mango Street are just two of the critically acclaimed works by poet Sandra Cisneros. Along with several books of poetry and fiction, Ms. Cisneros has also published essays in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Allure. Her numerous honors include the American Book Award in 1995. She is a university professor and resides in San Antonio, Texas. |
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Sapphire is the author of the acclaimed novel Push, and of a collection of poems. She is a performance poet and continues to teach reading and writing in New York City. |
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Julia Alvarez is an acclaimed author of several books, including Homecoming and How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents. She is the winner of the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Award, and her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Allure, The New Yorker, and USA Weekend. She has held positions as a professor of creative writing and English at Phillips Academy Andover in Massachusetts, the University of Vermont, and the University of Illinois. |
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