Women Writers of the Diaspora - April 8
Thursday, April 8, 2004, 6:00-9:00p.m.
65 Fifth Avenue, Wolff Conference Room, 2nd Fl.
This event marks the inaugural reading in the New School's Women Writers of the Diaspora Series, which will profile a fast growing body of literature written by women of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, and Continental-African descent across the Diaspora. Each reading will concentrate on writers from a particular culture. Our first reading features two Jamaican writers.
Ifeona Fulani, who was born in Jamaica and raised in England, gave up a career in public administration for the literary life. She lives in New York, where she is a writer, teacher and doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Ifeona holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the author of a novel, Seasons of Dust (Harlem River Press 1997), and numerous short stories, some of which have been published in Black Renaissances/Renaissance Noire, Best of 2000, and Small Axe.
Pamela ('Pam") Mordecai, a trained teacher of English who will "write almost anything" has authored/co-authored textbooks and edited/co-edited anthologies of Caribbean prose and poetry, most of which focus on the writing of women. Her children's books include The Costume Parade and Rohan Goes to Big School, both published by OUP (UK). In 2002 Pam published a collection of poetry, Certifiable (Goose Lane Editions), and co-authored a reference book, Culture & Customs of Jamaica (Greenwood Press) with her husband, Martin. She has just completed her first collection of short stories and recently wrote El Numero Uno or the Pig from Lopinot, a play commissioned by the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in Toronto where she and Martin live.
Both Ifeona and Pam reflect the spirit of the series, which is to explore the ways in which women writers of African descent contribute to world literature-a contribution often informed by experience in a multicultural, multiethnic or multilingual environment. Admission is free. For information contact Celesti Colds Fechter at 212 229-5615x2100.
Women Writers of the Diaspora is a series of readings sponsored by the New School Diversity Committee and supported by University Diversity Initiative.
65 Fifth Avenue, Wolff Conference Room, 2nd Fl.
This event marks the inaugural reading in the New School's Women Writers of the Diaspora Series, which will profile a fast growing body of literature written by women of African-American, Afro-Caribbean, Afro-Latino, and Continental-African descent across the Diaspora. Each reading will concentrate on writers from a particular culture. Our first reading features two Jamaican writers.
Ifeona Fulani, who was born in Jamaica and raised in England, gave up a career in public administration for the literary life. She lives in New York, where she is a writer, teacher and doctoral candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Ifeona holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the author of a novel, Seasons of Dust (Harlem River Press 1997), and numerous short stories, some of which have been published in Black Renaissances/Renaissance Noire, Best of 2000, and Small Axe.
Pamela ('Pam") Mordecai, a trained teacher of English who will "write almost anything" has authored/co-authored textbooks and edited/co-edited anthologies of Caribbean prose and poetry, most of which focus on the writing of women. Her children's books include The Costume Parade and Rohan Goes to Big School, both published by OUP (UK). In 2002 Pam published a collection of poetry, Certifiable (Goose Lane Editions), and co-authored a reference book, Culture & Customs of Jamaica (Greenwood Press) with her husband, Martin. She has just completed her first collection of short stories and recently wrote El Numero Uno or the Pig from Lopinot, a play commissioned by the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in Toronto where she and Martin live.
Both Ifeona and Pam reflect the spirit of the series, which is to explore the ways in which women writers of African descent contribute to world literature-a contribution often informed by experience in a multicultural, multiethnic or multilingual environment. Admission is free. For information contact Celesti Colds Fechter at 212 229-5615x2100.
Women Writers of the Diaspora is a series of readings sponsored by the New School Diversity Committee and supported by University Diversity Initiative.
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