Mona Lisa Saloy
Mona Lisa Saloy | |
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| Born | Mona Lisa Saloy American |
| Education | PhD, MFA |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, author, storyteller |
| Website | http://www.monalisasaloy.com/ |
Mona Lisa Saloy is an American poet and folklorist. She is the Poet Laureate of Louisiana since 2021.[1][2]
Biography
Mona Lisa Saloy was born in
Saloy's poetry appears in a number of publications, including Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, The Southern Poetry Anthology and the Children's Folklore Review. Her book Red Beans & Ricely Yours won the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize, as well as the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize in 2006. Saloy is known for writing about New Orleans Creole cultural experience. She has been awarded a number of honours, including the Mayor's Office Tricentennial Grant in 2018.[3][6][7][8]
Works
- Red Beans & Ricely Yours: Poems (Truman State University Press, 2015)
- Second Line Home, New Orleans Poems (Truman State University Press)
Sources
- ^ "Louisiana Poet Laureate". Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
- ^ "Louisiana". The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
- ^ a b "Mona Lisa Saloy". Poets & Writers.
- ^ "Dillard University · English".
- ^ Christie, Judy. "Creole author Mona Lisa Saloy: "I write to speak for those who don't or can't"Creole author Mona Lisa Saloy: "I write to speak for those who don't or can't"". The Times.
- ^ "New Orleans Poets on the Airwaves: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy and Dr. Peter Cooley".
- ^ "MONA LISA SALOY". Who's Who of Professional Women. 5 February 2020.
- ^ "African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana". www.louisianafolklife.org.
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