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Elizabeth Nunez
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Elizabeth Nunez is a CUNY Distinguished Professor of English at Medgar Evers College, the City University of New York. She received a BA from Marian College, and MA and Ph.D. degrees in English from New York University. Nunez’s novel Beyond the Limbo Silence was selected as the work of fiction for the 2003-2004 CUNY IS READING project.
For seventeen years, Dr. Nunez was the director of the prestigious National Black Writers Conference, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She is executive producer of the CUNY TV series Black Writers in America hosted by Ossie Davis. This series was nominated for a 2004 NY Emmy Award for best television series in the category of historical/ cultural programming. A former fellow at Yaddo and MacDowell colonies and the Paden Institute, Dr. Nunez currently chairs the PEN American Center Open Book program and is Chairman of the Board for the Center for Black Literature and the Friends of the Calabash International Literary Festival. Her awards include the 2003 Caribbean American Heritage Award, the 2002 Go On Girl! National Author of the Year Award, the 2001 American Book Award for Bruised Hibiscus, the 1999 Independent Publishers Award in the multicultural fiction category for Beyond the Limbo Silence, the YWCA Woman of Distinction Award and an honorary doctorate in Humane Letters for her contributions to the arts and education from her alma mater, Marian College. Dr. Nunez is co-editor of the collection of essays, Defining Ourselves: Black Writers in the 90s.
Published Works Include:
• Grace
• Discretion
• Bruised Hibiscus
• Beyond the Limbo Silence
• When Rocks Dance
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