Day 26: Elizabeth Nunez
In addition to teaching, Nunez has written several novels such as Anna In Between (2010) and When Rocks Dance (1992). Nunez writes about human relationships and clashes of cultures, classes, genders, etc. She has won many awards for her novels. For example, Beyond the Limbo Silence (1998) won an Independent Publishers Book Award and Bruised Hibiscus (2000) won the American Book Award. Not limited to fiction, Nunez has also published literary criticism and was co-editor of Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Woman Writers at Home and Abroad (2005) and Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s (1999).
Nunez works to empower other writers. She was co-founder of the National Black Writers Conference, which is now in its 13th year. She worked as Executive Producer on the 2004 tv series Black Writers in America and is served on the PEN American Open Book Committee.
