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Jessica Hagedorn
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Jessica Hagedorn
is a poet, playwright, and screenwriter whose works
include three novels, Dream Jungle, The Gangster of Love, and Dogeaters, and a collection of poetry
and prose, Danger And Beauty. She is
the editor of Charlie Chan Is Dead: An
Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction and Charlie Chan Is Dead 2: At Home in the World. Her screenplays
include Fresh Kill, a feature-length
film directed by Shu Lea Cheang, and four episodes of The Pink Palace, an animated series created for Oxygen TV. Among
her plays are Dogeaters, adapted from
the novel; Stairway to Heaven; and Most Wanted,
a collaboration with composer Mark Bennett.
Listen to Jessica
Hagedorn's reading from "Exhibit D," legal documents from a prisoner
at Guantánamo Bay.
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