Fund for New American Plays Award, a project of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1995 and 1991. Lifetime Achievement Award, Ellas in Acción, San Francisco, 1995. Lesbian Rights Award, Southern California Women for Understanding ("for Outstanding Contributions in Lesbian Literature and for Service to the Lesbian Community"), 1991. The National Endowment for the Arts Theater Playwrights' Fellowship, 1993. The PEN West Literary Award for Drama, 1993. The Critics' Circle Award for Best Original Script, 1992 (Heroes and Saints). The Will Glickman Playwriting Award, 1992. The Drama-logue Award for Playwriting, 1992. The Outlook Foundation, Literary Award, 1991. The California Arts Council Artists in Community Residency Award, 1991-2 /1993-5. The American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation, 1986. The Creative Arts Public Service (CAPS) Grant for Poetry, New York State, 1983. The Mac Dowell Colony Fellowship for Poetry, New Hampshire, 1982. See also Chicana feminism Feminist epistemology Lesbian feminism Lesbian Poetry Radical feminism Third-world feminism List of Mexican American writers List of women writers American Literature in Spanish References Pignataro, Margarita Elena del Carmen (Arizona State University PhD thesis). "Religious hybridity and female power in "Heart of the Earth: A Popol Vuh Story" and other theatrical works by Cherrie Moraga." () (Dissertation/Thesis). 01/2009, . UMI Number: 3353695. - This work has an abstract in English and is written in the Spanish language. Notes External links Official site Cast Out: Queer Lives in Theater (University of Michigan Press, edited by Robin Bernstein) includes Moraga's essay, "And Frida Looks Back: The Art of Latina/o Queer Heroics." Esta puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos (co-editor, 1988). San Francisco: ism press. (paperback); (hardcover) 1952 births American academics of Mexican descent American writers of Mexican descent Chicana feminists American feminist writers Hispanic and Latino American dramatists and playwrights Lesbian feminists LGBT Hispanic and Latino American people American lesbian writers Living people Writers from Whittier, California American women dramatists and playwrights Lambda Literary Award winners American LGBT dramatists and playwrights American Book Award winners 21st-century LGBT people 21st-century American women