Cherríe Moraga is poet, playwright and essayist, and the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of numerous plays including Shadow of a Man and Watsonville: Some Place Not Her--which both won the Fund for New American Plays Award in 1991 and 1995 respectively - and Heroes and Saints, which earned the Pen West Award for Drama in 1992. Moraga is a recipient of the United States's National Endowment for the Arts’ Theatre Playwrights’ Fellowship and is Artist -in-Residence at Stanford University.
