User:EmyP/Mona Lisa Saloy
Mona Lisa Saloy is a poet...
- Louisiana Poetry Project
- Poets & Writers: Directory of Women Writers
- African American Literature Book Club
- Author's web site
- TSUP: Mona Lisa Saloy discusses poetry as a journey] 28 March 2012.
- Academia page
- Dr. Gary Clark interviews Mona Lisa Saloy
- Coordinator of English in the School of Humanities for Dillard University, Assoc. Prof. of English at Dillard
- Founding director of Creative Writing at Dillard Tenessee Williams/New Orlesans Literary Festival (TWFest)
- Director of the Daniel C. Thompson / Samuel Du Bois Honors Program (TWFest)
- Author, Poet, Folklorist.
- MFA + PhD (Louisiana State University)
- MA (San Francisco State University)
- BA (University of Washington, Seattle)
- Fellowships: National Endowment for the Humanities, United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - all for research on beat poet Bob Kaufman.
- Prizes: T. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University) (2005); PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award (2006); Finalist for the Morgan Prize (Story-Line Press)
- Born: New Orleans, Louisiana (PW Directory of Women Writers)
- Identification: African American
Bibliography
[edit]- Between laughter and tears: Black Monal Lisa poems (Black Bayou Press, 1995)
- Red Beans and Ricely Yours (Truman State University Press, 2005)
- Second Line Home (Truman State University Press, 2014)
- A Night in St. Tammany Parish (Callaloo, Volume 24, Number 1, Winter 2001 pp. 162-163 | 10.1353/cal.2001.0061) - short story