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Zetta Elliott

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born

October 26, 1972 in Ajax, Canada

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female

website

http://www.zettaelliott.com

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Children's Books, Literature & Fiction, Women & Gender Studies

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Octavia Butler, Jamaica Kincaid, Toni Morrison, Jean Toomer, Ezra Jack...more

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February 2010

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Zetta Elliott’s poetry has been published in the Cave Canem anthology, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Check the Rhyme: an Anthology of Female Poets and Emcees, and Coloring Book: an Eclectic Anthology of Fiction and Poetry by Multicultural Writers. Her novella, Plastique, was excerpted in T Dot Griots: an Anthology of Toronto’s Black Storytellers, and her essays have appeared in The Black Arts Quarterly, thirdspace, WarpLand and Rain and Thunder. She won the 2005 Honor Award in Lee & Low Books’ New Voices Contest, and her picture book, Bird, was published in October 2008. Her first play, Nothing but a Woman, was a finalist in the Chicago Dramatists’ Many Voices Project (2006). Her fourth full-length play, Connor’s Boy, was sta...more

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the hummingbird’s tongue

I had a moment yesterday when I wanted to quit teaching. As soon as I submitted my grades, the whining began…no matter how clear you are about the course requirements, no matter how many opportunities you give to earn extra credit, there are always a few students who think you owe them something more. I love teaching and I hope to teach for the rest of my life, but I’m wondering if there’s a wa...

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Average rating: 3.87 · 310 ratings · 107 reviews · 13 distinct works

	Bird by Zetta Elliott (Goodreads Author), Shadra Strickland (Goodreads Author) (illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 127 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	A Wish After Midnight 3.64 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Ship of Souls 3.38 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Stranger in the Family 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	One-Act Plays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Three Plays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:
	Ten-Minute Plays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South by Nikky Finney (Editor), Zetta Elliott (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2007 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Cornered: 15 Stories of Bullying and Defiance by Rhoda Belleza (Editor), Kirsten Miller (Goodreads Author), Mayra Lazara Dole (Goodreads Author) 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Check the Rhyme: An Anthology of Female Poets & Emcees by DuEwa M. Frazier, Zetta Elliott (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2006	My rating:

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Out of the Crowded Vagueness: A History of the Islands of St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla

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Zetta Elliott is currently reading: Out of the Crowded Vagueness: A History of the Islands of St Kitts, Nevis and Anguilla by Brian Dyde	My rating:
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