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Alexis De Veaux is the author of two award-winning biographies: Don’t Explain: A Song of Billie Holiday and Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde. A celebrated writer of poetry, children’s literature, plays, essays and journalism, De Veaux is also an activist recognized for her lifelong contributions to a number of women’s and literary ...
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Alexis De Veaux was born and raised in Harlem, the product...
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Contributing Essays by Alexis De Veaux. 2022: Feminist...
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Galactic Black: Dreaming in Tongues and the Black...
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A Conversation with Alexis De Veaux and Janet Mock Amistad...
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Reading at Rofhiwa Book Cafe with Alexis Pauling Gumbs,...
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Reading at Rofhiwa Book Cafe with Alexis Pauling Gumbs,...
- JESUSDEVIL: THE PARABLES
Evocative and experimental, JesusDevil is a nonlinear tale...
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Alexis De Veaux (born September 24, 1948) is a black, lesbian American writer and illustrator. She chaired the Department of Women's Studies, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Her surname also appears as DeVeaux.
Alexis De Veaux is a black queer feminist independent scholar whose internationally known work is published in six languages. She has been publishing fiction, poetry, plays, memoirs, and children’s literature since 1973, and her work is anthologized in numerous collections.
Alexis DeVeaux was born and raised in Harlem. Drawn to the world of words and books from a young age, literature soon became the means by which DeVeaux re-imaged the world. She was strongly influenced by the social movements and black writers of the 1960's.
Alexis Deveaux. (b. 1948) Quick Reference. (b. 1948), poet, playwright, novelist, short fiction writer, editor, lecturer, performer, educator, activist, and prize-winning essayist and author of children's stories.
