Carla Blank | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Carnegie Mellon University; Sarah Lawrence College, B.A.; Mills College, M.A. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, editor, educator, choreographer, dramaturge, and director |
| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Spouse | Ishmael Reed (m. 1970) |
| Website | www |
Carla Blank is an American writer, editor, educator, choreographer, and dramaturge.[1] Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, for more than four decades she has been a performer, director, and teacher of dance and theater, particularly involved with youth and community arts projects.[2]
Blank is editorial director of the Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, and has also lectured at such educational institutions as the University of California–Berkeley, Dartmouth College, and the University of Washington.[3][4] She has written and edited a number of books, including Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900–2000 (2003), Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience, Short Fiction, From Then to Now (2009), Storming the Old Boys’ Citadel: Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America (2014), Bigotry on Broadway (2021) and A Jew in Ramallah and Other Essays (November 2024).[5]