PBS series Faces of America, which explored her ancestry and analyzed her DNA. Bibliography Poetry Collections List of poems Essays and introductions Memoirs Critical studies and reviews of Alexander's work Review of The Light of the World. References External links Poems by Elizabeth Alexander and biography at PoetryFoundation.org Elizabeth Alexander: Profile and Poems at Poets.org Official site of Elizabeth Alexander Quantrell Award: Elizabeth Alexander California Newsreel: Elizabeth Alexander Elizabeth Alexander's profile "Natasha Trethewey Interviews Elizabeth Alexander", Southern Spaces, December 10, 2009. 1962 births Living people 20th-century American dramatists and playwrights 20th-century American essayists 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American essayists 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers African-American academics African-American dramatists and playwrights African-American educators African-American poets Black studies scholars American academic administrators American women dramatists and playwrights American women essayists American women poets Boston University alumni Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Harvard University faculty Haverford College faculty The New Yorker people Poets from Washington, D.C. Radcliffe fellows Sidwell Friends School alumni Smith College faculty University of Chicago faculty University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences alumni American women academics Writers from New York City Yale University alumni Yale University faculty Members of the American Philosophical Society American inaugural poets 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American women writers 21st-century African-American writers Andrew W. Mellon Foundation