Cherry Muhanji
Cherry Muhanji is the pen name of Jeannette Delaine Washington (born April 26, 1939, in Detroit, Michigan), an American writer. She is best known for her novel Her, which won a Ferro-Grumley Award and a Lambda Literary Award in 1991, and the anthology Tight Spaces, which she copublished with Kesho Y. Scott and Egyirba High and which won an American Book Award in 1988. She has also published poetry and short stories in literary magazines and anthologies and is currently working on a memoir. Muhanji holds a doctorate in English, anthropology and African American World Studies from the University of Iowa. She has taught at various colleges and universities, including the University of Minnesota, Goddard College and Portland State University. Muhanji's only novel, Her, was released in 1990. It explores the relationships between a community of black women in Detroit. References 1939 births American women novelists American women poets African-American LGBT people Living people 20th-century American novelists American LGBT poets American LGBT novelists African-American poets Poets from Michigan 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American poets American Book Award winners Novelists from Michigan Lambda Literary Award for Debut Fiction winners African-American novelists 20th-century African-American women writers 20th-century African-American writers 21st-century African-American people 21st-century African-American women 21st-century American LGBT people 20th-century American LGBT people