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Jewell Parker Rhodes (born 1954 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) is an American novelist. Rhodes is professor of Creative Writing and American Literature and former Director of the Master of Fine Arts Program in Creative Writing at Arizona State University. Rhodes is the Artistic Director for Global Engagement and the Piper Endowed Chair of the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing at Arizona State University. ==Life== Rhodes was born and raised in Manchester, a largely African-American neighborhood on the North Side of Pittsburgh. As a child, she was a voracious reader. She began college as a dance major, but switched to writing when she discovered African-American literature for the first time. She received a Bachelor of Arts in Drama Criticism, a Master of Arts in English, and a Doctor of Arts in English (Creative Writing) from Carnegie Mellon University. Her play, ''Voodoo Dreams'', was cited as "Most Innovative" Drama in the 2000-2001 Professional Theater Season by the ''Arizona Republic'' and she is currently at work on a theatrical version of ''Douglass' Women.'' Her work has been published in China, Korea, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Turkey, and the United Kingdom and reproduced in audio and for NPR's "Selected Shorts."〔 She has been a featured speaker at the Runnymeade International Literary Festival (University of London-Royal Holloway), Santa Barbara Writers Conference, Creative Nonfiction Writers Conference and Warwick University, among others. Recent fiction and essays have been anthologized in ''Rise Up Singing: Black Women Writers on Motherhood'' (ed., Berry), ''In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction'' (ed. Gutkind), ''Gumbo'' (ed., Golden and Harris), and ''Children of the Night: Best Short Stories By Black Writers'' (ed., Naylor), among others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jewell Parker Rhodes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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