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Jewelle
Gomez is the esteemed activist and author of the award-winning novel,
The Gilda Stories. Recent works include Forty Three Septembers (a book
of personal and political essays), Don't Explain (a collection of short
fiction), and a Gilda stage adaptation entitled, "Bones & Ash: a Gilda
Story." Gomez is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts literature
fellowship and two California Arts Council fellowships. She has served
on literary panels including the National Endowment for the Arts, the California
Arts Council and the San Francisco Arts Commission. In addition to numerous
anthologies, Gomez's fiction, essays, criticism and poetry have appeared
in The San Francisco Chronicle, The New York Times, The Village Voice;
The Advocate, Ms Magazine, Essence Magazine, and Black Scholar. Gomez recently
served three years as executive director of the Poetry Center and American
Poetry Archives at San Francisco State University. She frequently lectures
at universities throughout the U.S. and is currently working on a comic
novel about 1960s black activists facing middle age.
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