Discipline: Literature

Cherrie Moraga

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1982
Cherrie Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. She is part of the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of English. Her works explore the ways in which gender, sexuality, and race intersect in the lives of women of color. Moraga is also a founding member of the social justice activist group La Red Xicana Indígena, which is an organization of Xicanas fighting for education and culture rights as well as indigenous rights.

Studios

Heyward

Cherrie Moraga worked in the Heyward studio.

The Lodge Annex, a wing on the west side of the men’s dormitory (The Lodge), was completed in 1926. Initially intended as an apartment for a caretaker, the space was soon repurposed as a live-in studio for writers. In recognition of a major endowment gift from the DuBose and Dorothy Heyward Foundation, Lodge Annex was…

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