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Zusatztext 68194829 Informationen zum Autor Chinaka Hodge is a poet, educator, playwright and screenwriter. Originally from Oakland, California, she graduated from NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study in May of 2006, and was honored to be the student speaker at the 174th Commencement exercise. In 2010, Chinaka received USC’s prestigious Annenberg Fellowship to continue her studies at its School of Cinematic Arts. She received her MFA in Writing for Film and TV in 2012. In the fall of that year, she received the SF Foundation’s Phelan Literary Award for emerging Bay Area talent. Chinaka was also a 2012 Artist in Residence at The Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, CA. In January 2013, Hodge was a Sundance Feature Film lab Fellow for her script, 700th&Int’l. In June of 2013 Chinaka began as a first year fellow at Cave Canem’s prestigious summer retreat.For over a decade, Hodge has worked in various capacities at Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project, the nation’s leading literary arts non-profit. During her tenure there, Chinaka served as Program Director, Associate Artistic Director, and worked directly with Youth Speaks’ core population as a teaching artist and poet mentor. She has acted in comparable capacities in New York and Los Angeles at Urban Word NYC and Get Lit: Words Ignite. When not educating or writing for the page, Chinaka rocks mics as a founding member of a collaborative Hip Hop ensemble, The Getback. Her poems, editorials, interviews and prose have been featured in Newsweek, San Francisco Magazine, Believer Magazine, PBS, NPR, CNN, C-Span, and in two seasons of HBO’s Def Poetry. Klappentext Hip Hop's larger-than-life emcees and famous couples inspire spoken word couplets, sonnets and prosepoems. Fiercely intelligent, emotionally packed, righteously feminist. Vorwort Galleys available upon request Co-op available Radio interviews on All Things Considered, This American Life An "album release" book party to "drop" it on a Tuesday, and garner coverage from the urban gossip sites like 2dopeboyz.com, worldstar.com, www.pigeonsandplanes.com. Teaser videos for Vine, Snapchat and Instagram, as well as have Chinaka Hodge's well-known emcee friends do promo/drop for it. Features & interviews in The Advocate, Autostraddle., Bomb, Bitch, Bust, Curve, Go Magazine, Lambda Literary Review, LA Review of Books, Largehearted Boy, Make/Shift, Ms. Magazine, Nylon, Out, Poets and Writers Magazine Reviews in The Advocate, American Book Review, American Poet, At Length Magazine, Bookforum, Booklist, Bookslut, Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Chicago Sun Times, Chicago Tribune, Curve, Diva Magazine, Go Magazine, Haitian Times, Journal of Haitian Studies, Lambda Literary Review, LA Review of Books, LA Times, Library Journal, Ms. Magazine, The Miami Herald, n+1, The Nation, NY Review of Books, NY Times, Out, Poetry Magazine, Poetry Project Newsletter, Publisher's Weekly, Rain Taxi, The Rumpus, Shelf Awareness, SF Chronicle, Washington Post Excerpts in American Poet, The Awl, Bomb, Eleven Eleven, Zyzzyva, Promotion on the author's website chinakahodge.com Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements. Will pitch to regional media, including newspapers and radio stations. Promotion via City Lights social media: City Lights Blog, CL Facebook (27K likes), CL Twitter (79.3K followers), Goodreads (5000 friends), CL Instagram (3600 followers), CL Tumblr (3700 followers), CL Pinterest (1200 followers) Endorsements: Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino), Chuck D (Public Enemy), DJ J. Period (touring DJ for The Roots), George Watsky (bay favorite, indy star), Daveed Diggs (star of "Hamilton" on Broadway), Saul Williams, Zusammenfassung Hip Hop's larger-than-life emcees and famous couples inspire spoken word couplet...
