Poet Harryette Mullen: Reading & Book Signing

HARRYETTE MULLEN is the author of six poetry books, most recently Blues Baby (2002) and Sleeping with the Dictionary (2002), a finalist for a National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Poetry. Her poems are included in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature and have been translated into Spanish, French, Polish, Bulgarian, and Swedish.

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Her honors include a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry and a Rockefeller Fellowship from the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Rochester. In 2004, she was awarded a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, and in 2005, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Born in Alabama, Mullen grew up in Fort Worth, Texas. She graduated with honors from the University of Texas, Austin and received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She taught in the poets-in-the-schools program in Texas and at Cornell University before moving to Los Angeles, where she teaches African-American literature, American poetry, and creative writing at UCLA.

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