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Mona Lisa Saloy, Author and Folklorist, is currently visiting
Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle for
the 2005-06 year; for 2006-07 academic year. Since,
Katrina, she is on leave from Dillard University where she developed their
Creative Writing Program.
Her Ph.D. is in English from Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge where she received the MFA in Creative Writing. Mona Lisa’s first
collection of verse,
Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize
in poetry for 2005, published by Truman State University Press. She is
also
Winner of
the PEN Oakland National Literary Award.
Dr. Saloy’s verse appears in the anthology:
Furious Flower: African American
Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present. Joanne V. Gabbin,
editor. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004. Occasionally,
Mona Lisa writes and reads commentaries on the Black historical 7th Ward
neighborhood in New Orleans for Public Radio, WWNO, 89.9 fm. Some of Saloy’s
articles on Toasts, and the Lore of African American children are available on
the Web at the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Folklife site.
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