MFA Writing Program Visiting Artists Series: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

CalArts, Butler Building 4

CRITICAL STUDIES: Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, The New York Times, Harper’s, Vogue, and Essence among others. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts, and has been a guest to The Tavis Smiley Show.  Originally from Houston, Texas, she graduated in 2000 from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom.  Sharifa is writing a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia; her first book, Harlem is Nowhere, was published in 2011 by Little, Brown & Company and by Granta Books (UK). It was named to the New York Times list of 100 Notable Books for 2011.