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Nationality
  
American

Name
  
Heidi Durrow

Role
  
Writer


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Born
  
June 21, 1969 (age 55) (
1969-06-21
)

Alma mater
  
Stanford UniversityColumbia University Graduate School of JournalismYale Law School

Books
  
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Nominations
  
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work - Debut Author

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Heidi W. Durrow (born June 21, 1969) is an American writer, author of best-seller The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction.

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Early life and education

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Durrow, the daughter of a white Danish immigrant and an African-American Air Force man, grew up in part overseas in Turkey, Germany, and Denmark. In 1980 her family settled in Portland, Oregon, where she attended Jefferson High School. She majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the Stanford Daily, graduating in 1991 with Honors. She continued her education at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and received a M.S. in 1992. She then attended Yale Law School and received her J.D. in 1995.

Career

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Durrow’s career began at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where she worked as a corporate litigator on antitrust, commercial contracts, and employment discrimination cases. She left Cravath in 1997 to pursue a literary career.

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Durrow worked as a consultant to the National Basketball Association and National Football League as a Life Skills trainer from 2000 to 2006.

Durrow was a host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat focused on issues of being racially and culturally mixed.

In 2008 Durrow became a founder of the now defunct Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. The Festival—which ran from 2008 to 2012—celebrated stories of the Mixed experience including stories about biracial identity, transracially adopted families, and interracial and intercultural relationships and friendships. The Festival presented films, readings, workshops, a family event, and the largest West Coast "((Loving Day celebration))".

Durrow created a new festival called the Mixed Remixed Festival which premiered June 14, 2014.

Durrow was named a Power 100 Leader by Ebony Magazine in 2010 and was nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut.

Published works

  • The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
  • Awards

  • 2004: Winner, Chapter One Fiction Contest
  • 2004: Jerome Foundation Award for Emerging Writers
  • 2004: Winner, Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition
  • 2004: Fellowship in Fiction, New York Foundation for the Arts
  • 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Antiquarian Society
  • 2007: Elizabeth George Foundation Grant for Writers
  • 2007: Creative Artist Fellowship, American Scandinavian Foundation
  • 2007: Roth Endowment Award
  • 2008: Bellwether Prize for Literature of Social Change, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
  • References

    Heidi W. Durrow Wikipedia


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