Elizabeth Nunez

Ms Nunex immigrated to the US from Trinidad after completing high school there. She received a PhD in English from New York University and is a Distinguished Professor at Hunter College, the City University of New York.

 

Dr. Nunez is the author of eight novels. Boundaries (Akashic Books, 2011), her most recent novel, was selected as a New York Times Editors' Choice. Anna In-Between (Akashic Books, 2009) received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal and was a New York Times Editors' Choice. It was selected for the 2010 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award for literary excellence. Nunez's other novels include Prospero's Daughter (2010 Trinidad and Tobago One Book, One Community selection; New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, 2006 Florida Center for the Literary Arts One Book, One Community selection, and 2006 Novel of the Year for Black Issues Book Review); Bruised Hibiscus (American Book Award); Discretion (short-listed for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award); Grace; Beyond the Limbo Silence (Independent Publishers Book Award in Multicultural fiction category); and When Rocks Dance.

 

Most of Nunez's novels have also been published as audio books, and two are in translation, in Spanish and German. Nunez has also written several monographs of literary criticism published in scholarly journals and is co-editor of the anthology, Blue Latitudes: Caribbean Woman Writers at Home and Abroad.