For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf

Ntozake Shange (1948– 2018) was a renowned playwright, poet, theater director, and novelist. Her body of work includes Obie Award– winning for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, Some Sing Some Cry with Ifa Bayeza, and the posthumous Dance We Do: A Poet Explores Black Dance and I Am an Old Woman. Among her numerous accolades are the Langston Hughes Medal for Literature, a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Pushcart Prize, the Poetry Society of America’ s 2018 Shelley Memorial Award and three AUDELCO awards. Ms. Shange’ s work has been nominated for a Grammy, a Tony, and an Emmy.