# Sharan Strange > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sharan_Strange > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Sharan_Strange.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharan_Strange > Source revision: 1328969519 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American poet (born 1959)}} {{infobox writer |name=Sharan Strange |birth_date={{birth year and age|1959}} |occupation={{flatlist| *Poet *activist *professor }} |nationality=American |education=[Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College)
[Sarah Lawrence College](/source/Sarah_Lawrence_College) ([MFA](/source/Master_of_Fine_Arts)) |awards=[Barnard Women Poets Prize](/source/Barnard_Women_Poets_Prize) (2000)
[Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award](/source/Rona_Jaffe_Foundation_Writers'_Award) (2004) }} '''Sharan Strange''' (born 1959) is an African-American [poet](/source/poet), activist, and professor. ==Life== She grew up in [Orangeburg, South Carolina](/source/Orangeburg%2C_South_Carolina). She was educated at [Harvard College](/source/Harvard_College), and received an MFA in Poetry from [Sarah Lawrence College](/source/Sarah_Lawrence_College).{{Cite web|url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/sharan-strange|title=Sharan Strange|date=2017-06-14|website=Poetry Foundation|language=en-us|access-date=2017-06-14}} She served as a contributing and advisory editor of ''[Callaloo](/source/Callaloo_(journal))'', and co-founder of the [Dark Room Collective](/source/Dark_Room_Collective) (1988-1998) and co-curator of the Dark Room Reading Series.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/27/arts/the-dark-room-collective-where-black-poetry-took-wing.html|title=The Dark Room Collective: Where Black Poetry Took Wing|last=Gordinier|first=Jeff|date=2014-05-27|work=The New York Times|access-date=2017-06-14|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} The Dark Room Collective had a mission of forming a community of new African-American writers. Strange has said: "It was the sustaining practice of writing in community just as much as the activism of building a community-based reading series for writers of color that kept us engaged in collectivity."{{Cite web|url=https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/brief-guide-dark-room-collective|title=A Brief Guide to the Dark Room Collective {{!}} Academy of American Poets|website=www.poets.org|access-date=2016-04-02}} Strange has been a writer-in-residence at [Fisk University](/source/Fisk_University), [Spelman College](/source/Spelman_College), [Wheaton College](/source/Wheaton_College_(Massachusetts)), the [University of North Carolina-Wilmington](/source/University_of_North_Carolina-Wilmington), the [University of California at Davis](/source/University_of_California_at_Davis), [California Institute of the Arts](/source/California_Institute_of_the_Arts), and [Georgia Institute of Technology](/source/Georgia_Institute_of_Technology). She currently teaches writing at Spelman College. Her work has appeared in journals such as ''Callaloo'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Painted Bride Quarterly'', ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'', ''Agenda'', ''AGNI'',{{cite web | url=http://www.bu.edu/agni/authors/S/Sharan-Strange.html | title=AGNI Online | date=31 May 2022 }} ''Mosaic'', and ''L-I-N-K-E-D'', and in numerous anthologies. ==Awards== *1998 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Award * 2000 [Barnard Women Poets Prize](/source/Barnard_Women_Poets_Prize), for ''Ash'', selected by Sonia Sanchez * 2004 [Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award](/source/Rona_Jaffe_Foundation_Writers'_Award) * 2009 Pushcart Prize nomination ==Works== * {{cite journal| url=http://washingtonart.com/beltway/strange.html| title=CHILDHOOD; STREETCORNER CHURCH; WORDS DURING WAR; THE FACTORY; SEDUCTION; ASH| journal=Beltway Poetry Quarterly| volume=3| issue=1| date=Winter 2002 }} * [http://www.spelman.edu/bush-hewlett/linked/sharan_strange_poems.html "In Praise of the Young and Black"; "Their Voices Drawing Her", ''L-I-N-K-E-D:The Online Journal''] * [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4659981 "Unforgettable", ''Poet's Moment'', NPR] * [http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-strange.html "Hunger", ''AGNI 56'', 2002] * {{cite book| title=Ash| publisher=Beacon Press| year=2001| isbn=978-0-8070-6863-2 }} ===Anthologies=== Including: *{{cite book| title=Temba Tupu! Africana Women's Poetic Self-Portrait| editor=Nagueyalti Warren | publisher=Africa World Press| year=2008| isbn=978-1-59221-240-8}} * {{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YMMCB-_-xFYC&q=Sharan%20Strange&pg=PA65| title=The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South | editor=Nikky Finney| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=2007| isbn=978-0-8203-2926-0 }} * {{cite book| title=The Garden Thrives: Twentieth-Century African American Poetry| url=https://archive.org/details/gardenthrivestwe00majo| url-access=registration| editor=Clarence Major | publisher=Harper Perennial| year=1996| isbn=978-0-06-055364-7 }} *{{cite book| title=The Best American Poetry| editor=A. R. Ammons | publisher=Scribners| year=1994| isbn=0-671-51004-5}} * {{cite book| title=In the Tradition: An Anthology of Young Black Writers | url=https://archive.org/details/intradition00kevi | url-access=registration |editor1=Kevin Powell |editor2=Ras Baraka| publisher=Writers & Readers Publishing | year=1992| isbn=978-0-86316-316-6 }} ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== * [https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4659981 Strange reads "Unforgettable"] on [NPR](/source/NPR) (May 20, 2005) {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Strange, Sharan}} Category:1959 births Category:Living people Category:Harvard College alumni Category:Sarah Lawrence College alumni Category:Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award winners Category:20th-century American poets Category:21st-century American poets Category:People from Orangeburg, South Carolina Category:Poets from South Carolina Category:20th-century African-American writers Category:20th-century African-American women writers Category:21st-century African-American writers Category:21st-century African-American women writers Category:African-American women poets Category:African-American poets Category:20th-century American women poets Category:21st-century American women poets --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Sharan Strange](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharan_Strange) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharan_Strange?action=history)). 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