Cherrie Moraga

Cherrie Moraga is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Co-Director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana and Indigenous Thought, Art & Social Practice. Her work spans poetry, playwriting, and essays, focusing on Chicana/x identity, Indigenous thought, and feminist theory. She co-edited the seminal anthology This Bridge Called My Back, and authored influential works like Loving in the War Years and the memoir Native Country of the Heart.

• Recipient of prestigious awards including the United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship and ASA Lifetime Achievement Award
• Notable plays include The Hungry Woman – A Mexican Medea and digging up the dirt
• Mentor to generations of playwrights and writers

Her current projects include a screenplay on Chavela Vargas, commissioned by LevelForward. Though based part-time in the Bay Area, she maintains ties to Oakland, California.