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Devorah Major
American writer, editor, recording artist and academic

Devorah Major

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American writer, editor, recording artist and academic
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Biography

Devorah Major is an American writer, editor, recording artist, and professor. She has won awards in poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction and is San Francisco's third Poet Laureate.

Education

Major graduated from San Francisco State University in 1976 after studying African-American Studies and Health Education. She is now a part-time senior adjunct professor at the California College of the Arts.

Works

Major has toured Africa, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, and all over the United States performing her poetry and speaking on panels focused on African-American poetry, Beat poetry, and poetry of resistance. She is the author of two novels and four books of poetry. Her fifth book of poetry, and then we became is forthcoming (in 2016) from City Lights.

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