Jessica Hagedorn

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn is a Filipino-American author born in Manila in 1949.

She moved to San Francisco in 1963 and later to New York to pursue playwriting and music.

Hagedorn's mixed cultural background influences her unique perspective in Asian American literature and performance.

Her work often incorporates various media, including song, poetry, and spoken dialogue.

Hagedorn's novel Dogeaters, published in 1990, earned critical acclaim and award nominations.

She continues to work as a poet, storyteller, musician, playwright, and multimedia performance artist, living in New York with her family while exploring themes of Filipino experience and diaspora in her work.