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Nagueyalti Warren, PhD., is Professor of Pedagogy Emerita in African American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is author of three collections of poetry: Lodestar and Other Night Lights (1992); Margaret: circa 1834-1858 (2008), which won the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award; and Braided Memory (2011), winner of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award. She is editor of Temba Tupu! (Walking Naked) The Africana Woman’s Poetic Self-Portrait (2008), and Critical Insights: Alice Walker (2013). Her poems have appeared in Essence Magazine, Cave Canem Anthology, The Ringing Ear, Obsession, 44 on 44 and elsewhere. A Cave Canem graduate fellow, Warren also is author of W.E.B. Du Bois: Grandfather of Black Studies (2012), and Alice Walker’s Metaphysics: Literature of Spirit (2019). She earned her undergraduate degree from Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, a Master of Arts degree in English from Simmons College in Boston, a Master of Arts degree in Afro-American Studies from Boston University, MFA degree from Goddard College in Vermont, and a PhD from the University of Mississippi.
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