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2008 What Do the
Women Say?
Artist Bios:
Elmaz
Abinader
is an
Arab-American
writer from
Oakland
who has
won the Goldies
Award in
Literature, the
PEN Award for
poetry and a
Silicon Valley
Arts Grant for
Fiction. Her
publications
include
In the Country
of my Dreams…a
collection of
poetry and
Children of the
Roojme a
memoir. Her
performance
plays have
toured 11
countries and
Country of
Origin --a 3
act work, won 2
Drammies from
the
Oregon Drama
Circle.
Her band is
directed by Tony
Khalife. She is
a co-founder of
VONA, a
foundation that
holds summer
writing
workshops for
writers of
color. Her
upcoming works
include a new
memoir,
Country of Origin, a book of poems, The Torture Quartet and a novel, When Silence Gets Frightening.
Rosemary Frisino Toohey’s first
play opened
off-off-Broadway
and her work
has been
produced in
New York,
Los Angeles,
Baltimore,
Memphis and
several spots in
between. Her
full-length
drama, SCHOOL
SHOOTER, has had
a reading in
London's
West End
and won the
playwright an
Artist grant
from the
Maryland State
Arts Council.
IN THE TANK, her
award-winning
comedy about two
philosophical
lobsters, has
been produced
many times, is
published by
DRAMATIC
PUBLISHING,
and is now
included in the
collections of a
dozen university
libraries. A
longtime radio
news anchor,
Frisino Toohey
is heard on WTOP
in
Washington.
She also works
frequently
in film and on
TV and plays
opposite Marcia
Gaye Harden in
the upcoming
film, HOME.
There's more at
www.frisinotoohey.com
Lana Nasser is a performing artist (dancer/poet)
and ethnographer.
Her research
includes the study of
Dreams and Middle
Eastern mythology. She
holds a Master’s degree
in Consciousness Studies
from
JFK University and a BA in Psychology/Fine Arts from George
Washington
University.
She has performed,
lectured and led
workshops in the
United States
and
Jordan.
She most recently
presented ‘The Dance of
Isis’ at the De Young
Museum, SF. www.ArabWomanTalking.com
Haleh Hatami
lives in Oakland, CA.
Her poems have appeared
in
ZZYZYVA,
Phoebe, and
Fourteen Hills. Upcoming work will appear in Indiana Review, Chain
and International Poetry
Review. Her translations
will appear in 26 and
are under consideration
for the PEN Anthology of
Contemporary Persian
Literature. She is the
recipient of the CPIC
Life Poetry Award at San Francisco State
University and of the Ann
Fields Poetry Award.
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