Elizabeth Nunez
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United States
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novelist, and distinguished professor of English
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at Medgar Evers College
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–CUNY, in Brooklyn
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, New York
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. Nunez is also cofounder of the National Black Writers Conference
National Black Writers Conference
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. She emigrated to the United States
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from Trinidad
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, and received her Ph.D.
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from New York University
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Novels
- When Rocks Dance (1986)
- Beyond The Limbo Silence (1998)
- Bruised Hibiscus (2000)
- Discretion (2002)
- Prospero's Daughter (2003)
- Grace (2006)
- Anna In Between (2010)
- Boundaries (to be released in 2011)