Shay Youngblood

**Shay Youngblood** (amụrụ 1959; nwụrụ June 11, 2024) bụ onye edemede America, onye na-ede egwuregwu, na onye ode akwụkwọ akụkọ mkpirisi.

Youngblood arụwo ọrụ dị ka onye inyeaka ozi ọha maka WPBA na Atlanta na dịka onye ọrụ afọ ofufo Peace Corps na Dominica .

## Ndụ mmalite na agụmakwụkwọ
A mụrụ Shay Youngblood na Columbus, Georgia na 1959. Ọtụtụ ihe na ndụ Youngblood pụtara n'ime akụkọ ifo ya. Dị ka ọtụtụ ndị dike ya, Youngblood n'onwe ya bụ nwa mgbei mgbe ọ dị obere. Nne ya nwụrụ mgbe ọ dị ihe dị ka afọ abụọ, ọ bụkwa ezinụlọ obodo zụlitere ya: ndị nna nna, ndị nne na nna na ọtụtụ ụmụ nwanyị ndị yiri nke a kọwara n'akwụkwọ na egwuregwu ya.

Youngblood bụ otu n'ime ndị mbụ n'ime ezinụlọ ya gara mahadum. Mgbe ọ na-enweta akara ugo mmụta bachelor ya na nzikọrịta ozi na Mahadum Clark-Atlanta, ọ sonyere na ọrụ ọrụ na Haiti . Ọrụ ọ rụrụ na Haiti mere ka ọ mara banyere ikpe na-ezighị ezi nke ndị ogbenye na-ata n’ọtụtụ ebe gburugburu ụwa. Ozugbo ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ sonyeere Peace Corps, na 1981 ọ jere ozi dị ka onye ọrụ mgbasa ozi ọrụ ugbo na Dominica, na Eastern Caribbean. Mgbe e mesịrị, na 1993, Shay nwetara MFA ya na Creative Writing form University Brown .

## Ọrụ
A maara Youngblood dị ka onye na-ede uri, onye na-ede egwuregwu, onye edemede akụkọ ifo, ma deekwa, mepụta ma duzie vidiyo abụọ dị mkpirikpi. A maara ya nke ọma maka ederede atọ ya, *The Big Mama Stories*, *Soul Kiss* na akwụkwọ akụkọ ya kacha ọhụrụ, *Nwa nwanyị ojii na Paris* . Youngblood na-ekwu na ederede mbụ ya bipụtara, *The Big Mama Stories*, bụ nke kacha nso na akwụkwọ akụkọ ihe mere eme nke ọrụ ya niile. Nchịkọta akụkọ mkpirisi a na-elekwasị anya na ọbịbịa nke otu nwa agbọghọ dara ogbenye, nwa agbọghọ Africa-American aha ya bụ Chile. Nne Chileke, bụ Fannie Mae, anwụọla, ya mere Chile na nwanne ya nwoke na-aga ibi na otu nwanyị a na-akpọ "Big Mama," onye na-azụ ụmụaka site n'enyemaka nke obodo dum.

Ebipụtala akụkọ ifo ya, akụkọ na edemede ya na *magazin Oprah*, *Ezi Ụlọ Nche*, Akwụkwọ *BlackBook* na *Essence*, n'etiti ọtụtụ akwụkwọ ndị ọzọ. Ejije ya - *Amazing Grace*, *Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery* and *Talking Bones* - ka emepụtara n'ọtụtụ ebe. Egwuregwu ndị ọzọ nke Youngblood gụnyere *Black Power Barbie* na *Communism Killed My Dog* . Ọ mechakwara egwu egwu redio, *Kọwaa M na Blues*, maka WBGO Public Radio's Jazz Play Series.

Youngblood bụ onye otu bọọdụ nke mpaghara ndị nka Yaddo na ndị ode akwụkwọ Guild . Ọ kuziri ihe odide okike na NYU ma bụrụ 2002-03 John na Renee Grisham Ode akwụkwọ na obibi na Mahadum Mississippi . Ọ kụzikwaara ihe odide na Syracuse Community Writer's Project yana ihe nkiri na Rhode Island Adult Institution for Women and Brown University . Ọ bi ugbu a na Texas ebe ọ na-akụzi ihe okike na Mahadum Texas A&amp;amp;M .

## Ihe nrite
Shay Youngblood abụrụla onye nnata nke ọtụtụ onyinye na onyinye gụnyere ihe nrite Pushcart maka obere akụkọ ya, "Born With Religion." Ọ natakwala onyinye Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, Astaea Writes' Award for Fiction, 2004 New York Foundation for Arts Sustained Achievement Award, onye Edward Albee sọpụrụ na ọtụtụ NAACP Theater Awards.

## Ntụaka

## Ọgụgụ ọzọ
Hans Ostrom. "Shay Youngblood," na *Greenwood Encyclopedia of African American Literature.* Ed. Hans Ostrom na J. David Macey. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishers, 2005. Mpịakọta 5, 1803-1804.

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