devorah major

DEVORAH MAJOR is an award winning poet and fiction writer, creative non-fiction writer, performer, and editor. She served as San Francisco’s third Poet Laureate (2002-2006); is a senior adjunct professor in the Diversity Studies and Writing and Literature departments at California College of the Arts; and poet-in-residence of the San Francisco’s Fine Arts Museums. major has published five poetry collections, two novels, and two biographies for young people. Her poetry collection, street smarts (1996) received the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Excellence Award. Her novel, An Open Weave (1997), won the ALA Black Caucus First Novel Award. In 2015 major premiered her poetry play “Classic Black: Voices of 19th Century African-Americans in San Francisco” at the San Francisco International Arts Festival, and was commissioned by the Oakland East Bay Symphony in 2004 to collaborate with composer Guillermo Galindo to create and perform in Trade Routes, a symphony with spoken word and chorus that premiered in 2005. major has read and performed nationally and internationally. www.devorahmajor.com.

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