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'''Heidi W. Durrow''' (born June 21, 1969) is an [[United States|American]] writer, author of ''The Girl Who Fell From the Sky'', and the winner of the 2008 [[PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction]].<ref>From the Heidi Durrow author website, accessible [http://heidiwdurrow.com/ here], accessed December 9th, 2014.</ref>
'''Heidi W. Durrow''' (born June 21, 1969) is an [[United States|American]] writer, author of ''The Girl Who Fell From the Sky'', and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction.<ref>From the Heidi Durrow author website, accessible [http://heidiwdurrow.com/ here], accessed December 9th, 2014.</ref><ref>Details on the PEN/Bellwether Prize are available [http://heidiwdurrow.com/book-bellwether-prize/ here], accessed December 9th 2014.</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==

Revision as of 10:16, 9 December 2014

Heidi Wedel Durrow
Born (1969-06-21) June 21, 1969 (age 55)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materStanford University
Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
Yale Law School

Heidi W. Durrow (born June 21, 1969) is an American writer, author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction.[1][2]

Biography

Early life and education

Durrow, the daughter of a white Danish immigrant and an African-American Air Force man, grew up in part overseas in Turkey, Germany, and Denmark.[3] In 1980 her family settled in Portland, Oregon, where she attended Jefferson High School. She majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the Stanford Daily, graduating in 1991 with Honors. She continued her education at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and received a M.S. in 1992. She then attended Yale Law School and received her J.D. in 1995.

Career

Durrow’s career began at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where she worked as a corporate litigator on antitrust, commercial contracts, and employment discrimination cases. She left Cravath in 1997 to pursue a literary career.

Durrow worked as a consultant to the National Basketball Association and National Football League as a Life Skills trainer from 2000 to 2006.[4]

Durrow was a host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat focused on issues of being racially and culturally mixed.[5]

In 2008 Durrow became a founder of the now defunct Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival.[6] The Festival—which ran from 2008 to 2012—celebrated stories of the Mixed experience including stories about biracial identity, transracially adopted families, and interracial and intercultural relationships and friendships. The Festival presented films, readings, workshops, a family event, and the largest West Coast "((Loving Day celebration))". The Festival also presented the annual Loving Prize for storytellers and community leaders who have shown exceptional dedication to sharing and illuminating the Mixed experience. Past Loving Prize recipients include: writer James McBride, Hapa artist Kip Fulbeck, TV producer and writer Angela Nissel, and scholar Maria P. P. Root.

Durrow created a new festival called the Mixed Remixed Festival which premiered June 14, 2014.[7]

Durrow was named a Power 100 Leader by Ebony Magazine in 2010 and was nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut. She is a sought-after national speaker and has been featured as an expert on multiracial and multicultural issues and identity by the New York Times, NBC Nightly News, CNN, National Public Radio, the BBC and Ebony Magazine.

Published works

Awards

References

  1. ^ From the Heidi Durrow author website, accessible here, accessed December 9th, 2014.
  2. ^ Details on the PEN/Bellwether Prize are available here, accessed December 9th 2014.
  3. ^ Lise Funderburg, Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity (Morrow, 1995), pp. 351-59.
  4. ^ Erica Boeke and Chris De Benedetti, Gameface: The Kick-Ass Guide for Women Who Love Pro Sports (Virgin, 2008), pp. 31-35.
  5. ^ “Obama Raises Profile of Mixed race Americans”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2008, Tyche Hendricks.
  6. ^ “Japanese American National Museum to Host 2nd Annual Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival,” Nichi Bei Times, May 21–27, 2009, p. 10.
  7. ^ http://www.mixedremixed.org/about-mixed-remixed/
  8. ^ The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books, February 2010).

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