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About the Author --
DONNA DENIZÉ, of Haitian-American
descent, is the author of the poetry chapbook, The Lover’s Voice. Her
poems
have appeared in several anthologies including, Whose Woods These Are;
Hungry As We Are; WPFW Poetry Anthology; Ribbon of Song; Natives,
Tourists, and Other Mysteries; Weavings 2000, and such magazines as
Provincetown Arts, Gargoyle, and World Order.
She holds degrees from Stonehill
College and Howard University, and received grants from The Johns
Hopkins University Summer Writing Program; Duke University Writer’s
Conference; the Bread Loaf School of English, Lincoln College at Oxford
University; the D.C. Humanities Council, and The Folger Shakespeare
Library’s Teaching Shakespeare Institute. She served two years on The
Folger Poetry Board, and was a contributor to Shakespeare Set Free, a
three volume set on teaching Shakespeare, published by The Folger.
She has been the recipient of
distinguished teacher awards at St. Albans, the White House Commission
on Presidential Scholars, and Williams College, which awarded her the
George Olmsted Jr., Prize for excellence in secondary teaching. She
currently teaches literature at St. Albans School for Boys in
Washington, D.C., and her educational philosophy is based on Baha’i
principles.
Ms. Denizé was the Invited
Teacher/Participant in The Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s
eight-part mini-series, In Search of the Novel (aired nationwide,
2000-present) and has served through appointment by Governor Charles
Robb to The Virginia State Advisory Board on Vocational Education.
Donna Denizé
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