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What the Sea Brought Up From Pënz Art Day 14, Twilight: penzitspronouncedpants.blogspot.com
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Ana-Maurine Lara's poetry and short fiction has appeared in several literary journals including Blithe House Quarterly, The Encyclopedia Project, Sable LitMag and Torch Magazine. She has received awards from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, Puffin Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council and PEN Northwest. Her debut novel, Erzulie's Skirt, was selected as a Lambda Literary finalist in 2006; her second (unpublished) novel, Anacaona's Daughter, won Third Place Prize in the National Latino/Chicano Literary Prizes.
Ana-Maurine is a Cave Canem Fellow and a member of The Austin Project, a collaborative workshop between artists, activists and scholars out of UT-Austin. She coordinates an oral history project documenting the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender artists titled: We are the Magicians, the Path Breakers and the Dream Makers (http://themagicmakers.blogspot.com) and is also co-author of bustingbinaries.com: a website dedicated to addressing binary thinking in U.S. based social justice movements. She is a graduate of Harvard University.
Currently she resides in Austin, TX.
For more information, or to contact Ana-Maurine Lara, email her at: zorashorse_at_yahoo_dot_com. About the origin of Zorashorse: Zora - for Zora Neale HurstonHorse - for the concept of one becoming a receptor to an ancestor's spirit
Zora Neale-Hurston, a southern black American woman, a writer and ethnographer, published Tell My Horse in 1937. This work details the results of her research on the life of maroons and vudu practitioners in Haiti and Jamaica. It was released prior to her now famous fictional works [Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939)], plays, memoirs [Dust Tracks on the Road (1942)] and numerous other ethnographic collections. Zora is an awesome force in American literature, Caribbean history and in the cultural memory of the African diaspora. |
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