Hattie Gossett

Hattie Gossett is an African-American feminist playwright, poet, and magazine editor.cite web
url=http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/hattiegossett-biography.html
title=Biography of Hattie Gossett
accessdate=2008-04-12] Her work focuses on bolstering the self-esteem of young black women [ [http://www.feministezine.com/feminist/blackwarrior.html 21st century black warrior wimmins chant for strengthening the nerves] , retrieved on May 31st 2007.] .

Gossett gained a Master of Fine Arts degree from New York University in 1993, where she was a Yip Harburg Fellow. She was a David Randolph Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at The New School in 2001. [cite web
url=http://www.stceciliachorus.org/community/artist-in-residence.shtml
title=In the Community: The David Randolph Distinguished Artist-in-Residence Program
publisher=The St. Cecelia Chorus
accessdate=2008-04-12]

Gossett was "involved in the planning stages" of "Essence". [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=v_Un8p4VfcsC
title=Alice Walker: A Life
author=Evelyn C. White
year=2004
publisher=W. W. Norton & Company
isbn=0393058913] She was also an early participant in the collective founded by Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith. [cite book
url=http://books.google.com/books?id=GV9rAS05c0QC
author=Alexis De Veaux
title=Warrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde
year=2004
publisher=W. W. Norton & Company
isbn=0393019543]

Her poem "between a rock and a hard place" is incorporated into the dance work "Shelter" by Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, as performed by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater beginning in 1995. [cite news
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E4DC1F39F93BA35751C1A963958260
title=DANCE REVIEW; Men Replace Women In a Classic Ailey Work
author=Jennifer Dunning
date=December 8, 1995
publisher=The New York Times
accessdate=2008-04-12] She contributed a slave narrative style reading to the Andrea E. Woods dance "Rememorabilia, Scraps From Out a Tin Can, Everybody Has Some". [cite news
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A00E7D9133BF93AA35751C0A96F958260
title=DANCE IN REVIEW; The Poignant Heritage Of a Black Family
author=Jennifer Dunning
date=February 9, 1999
publisher=The New York Times
accessdate=2008-04-12]

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