Elmaz Abinader
Author, poet, and playwright Elmaz Abinader won the 2002 Goldies Award for Literature, a PEN/Josephine Miles award for poetry, and two Drammies (Oregon's Drama Circle) for her performances. Author of a memoir, Children of the Roojme (University of Wisconsin Press); a collection of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams. (Sufiwarrior Publishing); and several one-woman shows, including Thirty Two Mohammeds and Country of Origin. She has a new poetry collection, The Torture Quartet and Other Acts of Poetry; a memoir, The Water Cycle; and a novel, When Silence was Frightening, forthcoming. Abinader is a co-founder of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation that holds workshops for Writers of Color, and teaches at Mills College.
Author, poet, and playwright Elmaz Abinader won the 2002 Goldies Award for Literature, a PEN/Josephine Miles award for poetry, and two Drammies (Oregon's Drama Circle) for her performances. Author of a memoir, Children of the Roojme (University of Wisconsin Press); a collection of poetry, In the Country of My Dreams... (Sufiwarrior Publishing); and several one-woman shows, including Thirty Two Mohammeds and Country of Origin. She has a new poetry collection, The Torture Quartet and Other Acts of Poetry; a memoir, The Water Cycle; and a novel, When Silence was Frightening, forthcoming. Abinader is a co-founder of the Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation that holds workshops for Writers of Color, and teaches at Mills College.
