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Faculty 2004
Indira Ganesan
Indira Ganesan was born in Srirangam, India. She was educated at Vassar College and the University of Iowa, and now teaches in the Humanities Division at Southampton College of Long Island University. In 1997 she was awarded a Fellowship at the Bunting Institute at Radcliffe. She has held previous fellowships at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and at the MacDowell Colony and was a finalist in Granta's Best Young American Novelists contest for her first novel, The Journey. Her novel, Inheritance, was published by Alfred A. Knopf, as was the first. Her writings have appeared in such periodicals as Antaeus, Glamour, Seventeen, and the Women's Review of Books, and in anthologies, such as, Half & Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial & Bicultural.
Tony Medina
Tony Medina is the author of 12 books, including No Noose is Good Noose, DeShawn Days, Love to Langston, Committed to Breathing, Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art. His poetry and fiction appear in over 20 anthologies and two CD compilations. Born in the South Bronx, Medina is currently visiting creative writing professor at Howard University. He has taught English at Long Island University's Brooklyn Campus, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in Poetry and American and African American literature from Binghampton University.
Sonia Sanchez
Sanchez is the winner of numerous awards for her work as an activist, a poet, children's author and playwright. She is the author of more than a dozen books of poetry, including Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems; Like the Singing Coming Off the Drums: Love Poems; Does your house have lions?, which was nominated for both the N.A.A.C.P. Image and National Book Critics Circle Award; Wounded in the House of a Friend; Under a Soprano Sky; and Homegirls & Handgrenades, which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation; Her published plays include Black Cats Back and Uneasy Landings and I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't. Among the many honors she has received are the Outstanding Arts Award from the Pennsylvania Coalition of 100 Black Women, the Peace and Freedom Award from Women International League for Peace and Freedom (W.I.L.P.F.), the Pennsylvania Governor's Award for Excellence in the Humanities, a National Endowment for the Arts Award, and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She was the first Presidential Fellow at Temple University, where she began teaching in 1977, and held the Laura Carnell Chair in English there until her retirement in 1999.
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