Ana-Maurine Lara

Ana-Maurine Lara is an AfroDominican American writer and organizer.  She was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in East Africa and Mount Vernon, NY.  She received her BA from Harvard University.

Ana-Maurine's poetry and short fiction has appeared in several literary journals including Tongues Magazine and Blithe House Quarterly, among others.  She has received awards from the Puffin Foundation, the Brooklyn Arts Council and PEN Northwest (the Margery Davis Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency).  She is co-author of bustingbinaries.com: a website dedicated to addressing binary thinking in U.S. based social justice movements.  www.zorashorse.com