Mona Lisa Saloy

Mona Lisa Saloy is an American poet and folklorist. She is the Poet Laureate of Louisiana since 2021.[1][2]

Mona Lisa Saloy
Born
Mona Lisa Saloy

New Orleans, US
NationalityAmerican
EducationPhD, MFA
Occupation(s)Professor, author, storyteller
Websitehttp://www.monalisasaloy.com/

Biography

Mona Lisa Saloy was born in New Orleans and got her education in the University of Washington, where she graduated in 1979 with a BA in English. She then went to San Francisco State University and left with her MA in creative writing and English in 1982. She then went to Louisiana State University, which she left with a PhD in English and MFA in creative writing in 2005 and 1988. Saloy is the Conrad N. Hilton Endowed Professor of English at Dillard University.[3][4][5]

Saloy's poetry appears in a number of publications, including Louisiana Folklore Miscellany, The Southern Poetry Anthology and the Children's Folklore Review. Her book Red Beans & Ricely Yours won the 2005 T. S. Eliot Prize, as well as the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Prize in 2006. Saloy is known for writing about New Orleans Creole cultural experience. She has been awarded a number of honours, including the Mayor's Office Tricentennial Grant in 2018.[3][6][7][8]

Works
  • Red Beans & Ricely Yours: Poems (Truman State University Press, 2015)
  • Second Line Home, New Orleans Poems (Truman State University Press)

Sources
  1. "Louisiana Poet Laureate". Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  2. "Louisiana". The Library of Congress. The Library of Congress. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. "Mona Lisa Saloy". Poets & Writers.
  4. "Dillard University · English".
  5. Christie, Judy. "Creole author Mona Lisa Saloy: "I write to speak for those who don't or can't"Creole author Mona Lisa Saloy: "I write to speak for those who don't or can't"". The Times.
  6. "New Orleans Poets on the Airwaves: Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy and Dr. Peter Cooley".
  7. "MONA LISA SALOY". Who's Who of Professional Women. 5 February 2020.
  8. "African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana". www.louisianafolklife.org.


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