American writer, editor, playwright, essayist and activist. Moraga’s experiences as the child of a poor Latina and an Anglo American, and her realization of her homosexuality all figure strongly in her work. “When I finally lifted the lid to my lesbianism, a profound connection with my mother reawakened in me. It wasn’t until I acknowledged and confronted my own lesbianism in the flesh, that my heartfelt identification with and empathy for my mother’s oppression–due to being poor, uneducated, and Chicana–was realized.”
After earning her B.A. in 1974, Moraga taught high school in Los Angeles for three years. In the evening, she took a writing class and turned out her first Lesbian love poems. Moving to San Francisco, she earned in MA from San Francisco State in 1980. The following year, she co-edited an anthology, “This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color.” The editors could not find a publisher and so she co-founded a publishing company Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press. The book went on to win the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award in 1986.
Moraga’s writing talent extends to writing plays. A member of a Theatre Communications Group she received
the NEA Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award. Her play, “Watsonville: Some Place Not Here,” won the Fund For New American Plays Award, from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
At age 40, she made the decision to have a child. Her 1997 book “Waiting in the Wings” grew out of her diary entries made during her pregnancy her son’s early years.
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