Elmaz Abinader
Elmaz Abinader | |
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| Born | January 19th, 1954 Pennsylvania, United States |
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| Education | University of Pittsburgh (BA) Columbia University (MFA) University of Nebraska (PhD) |
| Period | Contemporary |
| Genre | Poet, Memoirist, Performer, Writer, Educator |
| Subject | Literature and Art |
| Literary movement | Ethnic American Poetry |
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Elmaz Abinader (born 1954 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). She is of Lebanese descent. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection In the Country of My Dreams....