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Cherríe L. Moraga
(September 25, 1952 - living) U.S.A.

Cherríe Moraga

Essayist, poet, framatist, and editor

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Born in Whitter, California, to an Anglo father and a Chicana mother. Moraga describes her childhood as having been spent listening to women telling stories in the kitchen. In her work Moraga combines a lesbian sensibility with a Chicana consciousness.

In the 1980s she emerged as one of the most important voices in lesbian-Chicana literature in the USA. During her time as a graduate student at San Francisco State University, where she took an MA in Feminist Writing in 1980, she met Gloria Anzaldúa.

Moraga is the co-editor, with Anzaldúa, 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 - which 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 recent books include Loving in the War Years, a collection of poems and essays entitled The Last Generation and a memoir, Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (1997). 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 and Portuguese at Stanford University.

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