Wanda Coleman (2009)
Wanda Coleman is an award-winning American poet. She is known as "the L.A. Blueswoman," and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles." She has received fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Education Association (NEA), and the California Arts Council. Her many honors include the 1999 Lenore Marshall Prize for Bathwater Wine, and a nomination for the 2001 National Book Awards for Mercurochrome. In 2003 and 2004 Coleman was named the first literary fellow of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
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