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David MuraBiographical NotesDate of birth: June 17, 1952, Chicago, IllinoisDavid Mura. Author, poet, and performance artist. Third-generation Japanese-American sansei. B.A., English, Grinnell College, Iowa, 1974; graduate work in English at the University of Minnesota, 1974-79; M.F.A., Vermont College, 1991. Served on the board of directors at The Loft, Minneapolis, 1982-84; president, 1987-88. English instructor, St. Olaf College, 1990-91; visiting professor, University of Oregon, 1991. Published in The Nation, The American Poetry Review, Crazyhorse, The New Republic, and The Missouri Review, among others. Awarded two National Endowment for the Arts grants, a 1984 U.S.-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship, the 1987 "Discovery"/The Nation Award, and the 1995 Lila Wallace Reader's Digest Writer's Award. National Poetry Series Contest winner, 1989 (After We Lost Our Way); Josephine Miles Book Award, 1991, and Minnesota Book Award in the Biography category, 1991 (Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei); Minnesota Book Award in the Memoirs category, 1997 (Where the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality and Identity). With African-American writer Alexs Pate has created and performed in the performance piece Secret Colors and a movie, Slowly This, for the PBS series "Alive TV." Selected WorksWhen you click on the titles below, you will exit the Minnesota Historical Society web site and go to the Minnesota Statewide Project for Automated Library Systems (Web PALS) Web Database. Title searches link directly to our catalog record. Please click on your browser's back button to return.
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