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Author Description Elizabeth Alexander is a Quantrell Award-winning American poet, essayist, playwright, university professor, and scholar of African-American literature and culture. She teaches English language/literature, African-American literature, and gender studies at Yale University. Alexander was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard during the 2007-08 academic year.<br /><br />Alexander's poems, short stories, and critical writings have been widely published in such journals and periodicals as <i>The Paris Review</i>, <i>American Poetry Review</i>, <i>The Kenyon Review</i>, <i>The Village Voice</i>, <i>The Women's Review of Books</i>, and <i>The Washington Post</i>. Her play <i>Diva Studies</i>, which was performed at Yale's School of Drama, garnered her a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship as well as an Illinois Arts Council award.<br /><br />On December 17th, 2008 it was announced that she will compose a poem which she shall recite at the Presidential Inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009.

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