Ntozake Shange
Bio
Ntozake Shange (1948–2018) was a renowned poet, novelist, playwright, and performer, best known for her Broadway-produced and Obie Award–winning choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf. She wrote numerous works of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, including If I Can Cook/You Know God Can, Wild Beauty, and Sassafras, Cypress & Indigo.Alexis Pauline Gumbs (Foreword) is the literary advisor to the Ntozake Shange Revocable Trust. She is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World and Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity and is the co-editor of Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines. She is the founder of Brilliance Remastered, an organization that supports underrepresented scholars, artists, and organizers. Alexis has received numerous awards and recognitions such as the Advocate Magazine’s 40 under 40 and Colorlines’s 10 LGBTQ Leaders Transforming the South. Connect with her at alexispauline.com..
Reneé L. Charlow (Afterword) was the personal assistant to Ntozake Shange from 2014 to 2018. She is an actor, director, writer, and Theatre professor. She served as associate producer and assistant director for the production of Shange’s Lost in Language and Sound at Karamu House, Cleveland, OH, and directed for colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf at Virginia Commonwealth University and Bowie State University. Keep in touch with Renee at mycreativespirit.net.
Ntozake Shange Books
Sing a Black Girl’s Song: The Unpublished Works
Ntozake ShangeLILIANNE: A Novel.
Ntozake ShangeSlave Trickster Collection
Ntozake ShangeA photograph: Lovers in motion
Ntozake ShangeSchwarze Schwestern
Ntozake Shangespell #7
Ntozake Shangefor colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf & spell #7
Ntozake ShangeSing a Black Girl's Song: The Unpublished Work of Ntozake Shange
Ntozake ShangeSing a Black Girl's Song
Ntozake ShangeSing a Black Girl's Song
Ntozake ShangeDance We Do
Ntozake ShangeThe Methuen Drama Anthology of American Women Playwrights: 1970 - 2020: Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate Apparel
Susan YankowitzDance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance
Ntozake ShangeIf I Can Cook/You Know God Can
Ntozake ShangeIf I Can Cook/You Know God Can: African American Food Memories, Meditations, and Recipes (Celebrating Black Women Writers)
Ntozake ShangeWild Beauty
Ntozake Shange