Elizabeth Alexander (poet)

Elizabeth Alexander is a Quantrell Award-winning American poet, essayist, playwright, and university professor.

She is the author of four books of poems:
* 1990: "The Venus Hottentot"
* 1996: "Body of Life"
* 2001: "Antebellum Dream Book"
* 2005: "American Sublime"

"American Sublime" was one of three finalists for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize. She is also a scholar of African-American literature and culture and recently published a collection of essays, "The Black Interior".

She teaches English language/literature, African-American literature and gender studies at Yale University, and, for the 2007-08 academic year, is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard.

Alexander's poems, short stories and critical writings have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as "The Paris Review", "American Poetry Review", "The Kenyon Review", "The Village Voice", "The Women's Review of Books" and "The Washington Post". Her play, "Diva Studies", which was performed at Yale's School of Drama, garnered her a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship as well as an Illinois Arts Council award.

Links

*http://www.poets.org/viewevent.php/prmEventID/4327
*http://elizabethalexander.net/home.html
*http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/970529/qalexander.shtml
*http://www.newsreel.org/guides/furious/alexande.htm