Mona Lisa Saloy, Author and Folklorist, is currently visiting Associate Professor of English at the University of Washington in Seattle for the 2005-06  year; for 2006-07 academic year.   Since, Katrina, she is on leave from Dillard University where she developed their Creative Writing Program.

Her Ph.D. is in English from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge where she received the MFA in Creative Writing.  Mona Lisa’s first collection of verse, Red Beans and Ricely Yours: Poems, won the T. S. Eliot Prize in poetry for 2005,  published by Truman State University Press. She is also Winner of the PEN Oakland National Literary Award. Dr. Saloy’s verse appears in the  anthology: Furious Flower: African American Poetry from the Black Arts Movement to the Present.  Joanne V. Gabbin, editor.  Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.   Occasionally, Mona Lisa writes and reads commentaries on the Black  historical 7th Ward neighborhood in New Orleans for Public Radio, WWNO, 89.9 fm.  Some of Saloy’s articles on Toasts, and the Lore of African American children are available on the Web at the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Folklife site. more bio

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Bio  

For Frank Fitch    

For Daddy V  

A Life Won with Blood & Tears ( book review)

Mother with Me on Canal Street, New Orleans 

Red Beans and Ricely Yours (2005)

Responds to Black IT Uses    

Update on the Re Building New Orleans   

Visited Home on Monday 

WE: A Poem 

When We Need to    

Winner of the PEN Oakland National Literary Award

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Claudia Tate

The Cleansing

Cleansing Poem 

Cleansing Prologue

The Dance of Love 

Enough with the Poisonous Lyrics

FORBIDDEN FRUIT

Freud and the Negro 

Guest Poets

Inside the Caribbean

 Jay Lou Ava 

Kiini Ibura Salaam Tells All from Mexico 

Meet Rudolph Lewis

Mona Lisa Throws A Party  

Poetic Journey   

REMEMBER: CHEIKH ANTA DIOP 

Still We Rise

Time Longer Dan Rope

Transitional Writings on Africa  

WE BE BLACK PEOPLE           

Mona Lisa Saloy is associate professor of English and Director of creative writing at Dillard University (before Katrina). She won the 2005 T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry for this collection. She has also won fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities and from the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Her poems have appeared in anthologies, magazines, journals, and film. She received her PhD in English and MFA in creative writing from Louisiana State University and her MA in creative writing and English from San Francisco State University. Displaced by hurricane Katrina, Saloy is a visiting associate professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington for the 2005/2006 academic year.  Mona Lisa Saloy Bio