Stop by the Information Desk to see a display featuring an anthology from authors of the African Diaspora, edited by GCC’s own Monique Franz.
In addition to being a contributing author of the collection and currently working in the Trio AEOC department, Monique is a published playwright, novelist, and teaching artist whose work highlights the challenges of marginalized communities. For over twenty years, she created arts enrichment programs for youth and wrote onstage works to bring awareness to social issues, such as domestic abuse, trauma, and displacement. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Wilkes University, where she won the Beverly Hiscox and Norris Church Mailer scholarship awards. In her most recent collection, Legacy of a Father, Franz illustrates the impact of absentee fathers in a series of one-act plays. [from Amazon biography]
