Playwright, poet, and essayist Cherrie Moraga delivers the keynote address, "From Inside the First World," for the Prescott College Master of Arts Colloquium on Saturday, August 18, 2007 from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the Crossroads Center Community Room. Moraga will share an intimate post 9/ll reflection on an emergent 21st century U.S. women of color movement.

She will also offer a writing workshop "The Geography of Remembrance," on Sunday, August 19, 2007 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. The workshop is for all genres and levels of experience and explores the uses of the physical site of memory as the heart-location of the creative writing process.

All are welcome to both events free of charge. For more information  please contact Frank Cardamone at (928)-350-3218.

Cherríe L. Moraga's plays and publications have received national recognition, including a TCG Theatre Artist Residency Grant in 1996, the NEA's Theatre Playwrights' Fellowship in 1993, and two Fund for New American Plays Awards. She is the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, which won the Before Columbus American Book Award in 1986. She is the author of the now classic Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios (1983/2003) and The Last Generation (1993), published by South End Press of Cambridge, MA. In 1997, she published a memoir on motherhood entitled Waiting in the Wings (Firebrand Books) and has just completed a new memoir on her mother's passing from Alzheimer's in 2005 entitled Send Them Flying Home: A Geography of Remembrance.

Moraga has also published three volumes of drama through West End Press of Albuquerque, NM. They include: Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (1994), Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt (2002), and The Hungry Woman (2001). A San Francisco Bay Area playwright, Moraga has premiered her work at Theatre Artaud, Theatre Rhinoceros, the Eureka Theatre, and Brava Theater Center. Brava's production of "Heroes and Saints" in 1992 received numerous awards for best original script, including the Drama-logue and Critic Circles Awards and the Pen West Award. Her plays have been presented throughout the Southwest, as well as in Chicago, Seattle and New York. In 1995, "Heart of the Earth," Moraga's adaptation of the Popol Vuh, the Maya creation myth, opened at the Public Theatre and INTAR Theatre in New York City.

Cherríe Moraga is presently working on a novel and is completing a new collection of essays entitled, A Xicanadyke Codex of Changing Consciousness. Other works slated for completion in 2007 include: Warriors of the Spirit: Children's Plays of Protest and Promise; and, Nimo Who Is Not a Fish, a children's novel about a ten-year-old who wanders in search of his namesake, Geronimo.

Along with her partner, Moraga is the parent of two teenagers, and the "Abuelita" of two little granddaughters. For over ten years, she has served as an Artist in Residence in the Departments of Drama and Spanish/Portuguese at Stanford University, where she teaches Creative Writing, Chicano/Latino literature, Xicana-Indigenous Performance, and Dramatic Writing. She is proud to be a founding member of La Red Xicana Indígena, a network of Xicanas organizing in the area of social change through international exchange, indigenous political education, spiritual practice, and grass roots organizing.


The Prescott College Master of Arts Program (MAP) Colloquia are offered four times a year. This colloquium features presentations by dozens of currently enrolled graduate students, advisors, and faculty across the MAP's five Program Areas: Education, Counseling & Psychology, Adventure Education, Humanities, and Environmental Studies. The schedule is at www.prescott.edu/students/map. For contact info and questions please contact Frank Cardamone at (928)-350-3218.