Elmaz Abinader

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Elmaz Abinader
Born	January 19th, 1954 Pennsylvania, United States
Occupation	Professor writer poet performer
Period	Contemporary
Genre	Poet, Memoirist, Performer, Writer, Educator
Subject	Literature and Art
Literary movement	Ethnic American Poetry
Website
www.elmazabinader.com

Elmaz Abinader (born 1954 in Pennsylvania) is an American author, poet, performer, English professor at Mills College and co-founder of the Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA). She is of Lebanese descent. In 2000, she received the PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award for her poetry collection In the Country of My Dreams....