Toi Derricotte
Born: April 12, 1941 (age 84)
Bio: Toi Derricotte is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh. She won a 2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. With Cornelius Eady, she co-founded Cave Canem Foundation, a summer workshop for African-American poets.
Known for:
- The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey (1997)
- The Undertaker’s Daughter (2011)
- Natural birth (1983)
- Captivity (1989)
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