Nikki Giovanni

About Nikki Giovanni

Bicycles: Love Poems, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, and Black Judgement are works by African-American poet, author, and educator. Her children's novels include Spin a Soft Black Song and The Sun is So Quiet.

Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature. She has won numerous awards, including the Langston Hughes Medal and the NAACP Image Award. She has been nominated for a Grammy Award for her poetry album, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection. Additionally, she has been named as one of Oprah Winfrey's 25 "Living Legends". Giovanni gained initial fame in the late 1960s as one of the foremost authors of the Black Arts Movement. Influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and Black Power Movement of the period, her early work provides a strong, militant African-American perspective, leading one writer to dub her the "Poet of the Black Revolution".

Period	1968–present
Education	Fisk University (BA), University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University
Occupation	Writer, poet, activist, educator
Born	Yolande Cornelia Giovanni Jr, June 7, 1943, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

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She was teaching creative writing at Virginia Tech in 2007, when the April 16 campus massacre occurred. Her words, "We are Virginia Tech...We will prevail," became a rallying cry for traumatized students.

Nikki Giovanni before fame

She attended Fisk University, Penn State University, and Columbia University, among others.

Achievement of Nikki Giovanni

On the day of the Virginia Tech campus massacre, April 16, 2007, she was a creative writing instructor at the institution."We are Virginia Tech...We Will Survive", she screamed, becoming a rallying cry for traumatized students.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Nikki Giovanni family life

She was born in Tennessee and raised in Ohio. Her son's name is Thomas.

Associations of Nikki Giovanni

All Things Considered, a National Public Radio program, commissioned Giovanni to write a poem marking President Barack Obama's inauguration in 2009.

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