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name: Alison  Hart
about: PRAISE FOR MOSTLY WHITE“So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first pages.” —ISABEL ALLENDENational Book Award-winning author of In the Midst of Winter and The House of SpiritsCheck out video of event with Isabel Allende:https://youtu.be/sn69ndyr7uABIO: 	Alison studied theater at Tisch School of The Arts, New York University (B.F.A.), Saint Mary’s College (M.A.) and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies herself as a mixed race African American, Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Scottish and English woman of many colors. A Black Box Theater produced her play, Mother Daughter Dance, in San Francisco in 1995. Her poems are published in: Voices of Identity, Rage and Deliverance, by No Press at UC Berkeley, Lincoln by PRAISE FOR MOSTLY WHITE“So compelling it gave me goosebumps from the very first pages.” —ISABEL ALLENDENational Book Award-winning author of In the Midst of Winter and The House of SpiritsCheck out video of event with Isabel Allende:https://youtu.be/sn69ndyr7uABIO: 	Alison studied theater at Tisch School of The Arts, New York University (B.F.A.), Saint Mary’s College (M.A.) and later found her voice as a writer. She identifies herself as a mixed race African American, Passamaquoddy Native American, Irish, Scottish and English woman of many colors. A Black Box Theater produced her play, Mother Daughter Dance, in San Francisco in 1995. Her poems are published in: Voices of Identity, Rage and Deliverance, by No Press at UC Berkeley, Lincoln by Lincoln, The Cottage Press, and featured on KALX radio in Berkeley (1992). Other works include short stories in Writing For Our Lives by Running Deer Press. Maggie Seritzer featured her short story New York Compromise, on KPFA radio (1993). Alison was a featured reader at the following venues: The First annual Mixed Roots Film and Literary Festival in Los Angeles, 2008, Works/San Jose’ Art and Performance Center in San Jose, 2013 and Brown Poets Reading at E.M. Wolfman General Interest Small Bookstore in Oakland, 2014. She recently launched her book of poetry temp words, at Books Inc, in Alameda, CA published by Cosmo Press, 2015. Mostly White is Alison's first novel, a mixed-race family saga, published by Torrey House Press, 2018. ...more