Ana-Maurine Lara
Ana-Maurine Lara is an AfroDominican American author. She was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in East Africa and Mount Vernon, NY. She received her BA from Harvard University.
Lara’s poetry and short fiction has appeared in literary journals including Blithe House Quarterly, The Encyclopedia Project, Sable LitMag and Torch Magazine. She has received awards from the Puffin Foundation, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Brooklyn Arts Council and PEN Northwest. Her novel Erzulie's Skirt was a Lambda Literary Award Finalist in 2007; her second (unpublished) novel received Third Prize for the 33rd Annual Chicano/Latino Literary Prizes.
Lara is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of The Austin Project, a collaborative workshop between artists, activists and scholars, based at the University of Texas at Austin. She has attended VONA/Voices workshop, been a resident at Hedgebrook Residency for Women Writers, and been an Associate Artist with the Atlantic Center for the Arts. She coordinates We are the Magicians, the Path-breakers, the Dream-makers LGBTQ POC Oral History Project and is also co-author of bustingbinaries.com: a web site dedicated to addressing binary thinking in U.S. based social justice movements.
[Photo copyright © 2006 by Krissy Mahan.]
