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Cherríe
Moraga is a poet, playwright and essayist, and the co-editor of This Bridge
Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of
numerous plays including "Shadow of a
Man" and "Watsonville: Some Place Not Here," (both won the
Fund for New American Plays Award in 1991 and 1995, respectively) and "Heroes
and Saints," which earned the Pen West Award for Drama in 1992. Her
plays have been anthologized in numerous collections and are also published
in a three-volume series of collected works published by West End Press
of Albuquerque, New Mexico, including TheHungry Woman: A Mexican Medea.
Her collected non-fiction writings include: The Last Generation (South End
Press); a memoir, Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (Firebrand
Books); and, a new expanded edition of the now classic, Loving in the War
Years, republished by South End Press in 2000. Ms. Moraga is also a recipient
of the National Endowment for the Arts' Theatre Playwrights' Fellowship
and is the Artist-in-Residence in the Departments of Drama and Spanish &
Portuguese at Stanford University. |
