Shailja Patel

Shailja Patel is an award-winning poet, playwright, theatre artist, and creator of Migritude. In addition to performing worldwide (venues have included New York’s Lincoln Centre, Turin’s Internazionale Festival, the US Bioneers Conference, and Durban’s Poetry Africa Festival), she has spoken at over thirty colleges, universities, and conferences, including keynote student conference addresses at Yale and Brown. She has been the recipient of Ford Foundation funding, and her poems are included in the online exhibits of the International Museum of Women, the Museum of the African Diaspora, and the Asian Poets Collection of New York University. Her work has been translated into eight languages, and used in high schools, colleges, and workshops across the world.