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Aya de Leon, Performer
Writer/performer Aya de Leon lives in Oakland, CA. Her work has received acclaim in the Village Voice, Washington Post, American Theatre Magazine, and has been featured in various anthologies and journals. She was named best discovery in theater for 2004 by the SF Chronicle for "Thieves in the Temple : The Reclaiming of Hip Hop," a solo show about fighting sexism and commercialism in hip hop. Also in 2004, she received a Goldie award from the SF Bay Guardian for "Thieves…" In 2005 she was voted "Slamminest Poet" in the East Bay Express. Aya has released three spoken word CDs and several chapbooks. She is currently working on two novels, a collection of essays about self-love. She is the Director of June Jordan's Poetry for the People program at UC Berkeley.



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