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


 * Louisiana Folklore Society


 * 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)
 * 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