Cherríe Moraga

Cherríe Moraga is a writer, playwright, and essayist active in the Chicana, feminist, and queer communities. With Gloria E. Anzaldúa, she coedited This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), an anthology of writing integral to the emergence of third wave feminism which won the Before Columbus American Book Award. Moraga’s books include Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings 2000–2010, The Last Generation (1999), Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (1997), and Loving in The War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios (1985).

Moraga has published several volumes of drama: The Mathematics of Love (2017), Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt (2002), The Hungry Woman (2001), and Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (1994). Her honors include two Fund for New American Plays Awards, an NEA Fellowship, a Drama-Logue Award, and the PEN West Literary Award.

For over 20 years, Moraga taught creative writing, playwriting, Xicana-Indigenous performance, Latino/Queer performance, and Indigenous identity in diaspora in the arts at Stanford University. In 2017, she began her tenure as a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where, with her artistic partner, Celia Herrera Rodríguez, she has instituted Las Maestras: Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought and Art Practice. In 2019, Moraga published a memoir, Native County of the Heart.