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| Alma mater | Stanford University Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism Yale Law School |
Heidi W. Durrow, born June 21, 1969, is an American writer and author of the best-seller[1] The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction.[2][3]
Biography
Early life and education
Durrow, the daughter of a white Danish immigrant and an African-American man, grew up in part in Turkey, Germany and Denmark. 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 an M.S. in 1992. She then attended Yale Law School and received her J.D. in 1995.
Career
Durrow's career began as a litigator at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. She has also worked as life skills trainer for professional athletes of the NFL and NBA.
Durrow was a host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat focused on issues of being racially and culturally mixed.[4]
Durrow created a new festival called the Mixed Remixed Festival which premiered June 14, 2014.[5]
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 for The Girl Who Fell From the Sky.
She currently heads the non-profit organization, Mixed Remixed, Inc. She is working on her second novel.
Published works
Awards
- 2004: Winner,Chapter One Fiction Contest
- 2004: Jerome Foundation Award for Emerging Writers
- 2004: Winner, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
- 2004: Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts
- 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
- 2007: Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Writers
- 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Scandinavian Foundation
- 2007: Roth Endowment Award
- 2008: Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
References
- ^ The book is described as a best seller by New Yorker magazine, here, accessed December 9th 2014.
- ^ From the Heidi Durrow author website, accessible here, accessed December 9th, 2014.
- ^ Details on the PEN/Bellwether Prize are available here, accessed December 9th 2014.
- ^ “Obama Raises Profile of Mixed race Americans”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 21, 2008, Tyche Hendricks.
- ^ http://www.mixedremixed.org/about-mixed-remixed/
- ^ The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin Books, February 2010).
External links
- Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival Website
- Mixed Chicks Chat Website
- Personal Website of Heidi W. Durrow, www.heidiwdurrow.com
- Mixed Remixed, Inc. website www.mixedremixed.ort
- Personal Interview.
- Portrait and Interview: Blended Nation: Portraits of Multiracial People by Mike Tauber (2009).
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