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Danzy Senna, (b. 1970) is an American writer.
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Biography
Danzy Senna was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the middle child of three children. Her mother is the Anglo-American poet and novelist Fanny Howe. Her father is the African-American writer and journalist, Carl Senna, author of The Black Press and the Struggle for Civil Rights and The Fallacy of I.Q.
Senna earned her B.A. from Stanford University and MFA in creative writing from the University of California, Irvine, where she received several creative writing awards.
Her first novel, Caucasia (1998), received the Book-of-the-Month Stephen Crane Award for First Fiction. It also received the Alex Award from the American Library Association.[1]
Her second novel Symptomatic (2003), is a psychological thriller narrated by a biracial young woman who is often accepted as white.
In 2009 Senna published a memoir, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History. Her short story collection You Are Free was published in Spring 2011.
Senna lives in Los Angeles with her husband, novelist Percival Everett, and their two children.
Awards
- 2004: Fellow, New York Public Library's Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers
- 2002: Whiting Writers Award
Books
- You Are Free (Stories) (2011)
- Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History (2009)
- Symptomatic (2003)
- Caucasia, also published as From Caucasia with Love (1998)
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Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- People from Boston, Massachusetts
- American novelists
- American writers of Mexican descent
- American writers of Irish descent
- African American female writers
- African American writers
- Hispanic and Latino American novelists
- American novelist, 1970s birth stubs
- Mexican-American stubs
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