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Cherrie Moraga (born 25 September 1952 in Whitier, California) is a United States writer and militant of Anglo-Chicana descent. Cherrie Moraga occurs as prolific, award-winning Chicana writer/activist/poet/ dramatist. She writes poetry, plays and essays on her experiences as a lesbian and being chicana. Her virtually all recent works include The Last Generation, a collection of verse form & essays, & Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood, a memoir.

Cherrie has taught dramthe & writing courses at various universities nationally, & is presently a academician at Stanford University. Her freshly play, Watsonville, enjoyed the successful begaround in San Francisco previous season.

She co-edited a classic feminist anthology, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color with Gloria Anzaldua.

"When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation." -Cherrie Moraga

Selected works
Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (1997) Art in America Con Acento (1994) Heroes and Saints & Other Plays (1994) Sexuality of Latinas (1993) The Last Generation (1993) Shadow of a Man (1992) Cuentos: Stories By Latinas (1983) Giving Up The Ghost (1986) Loving In The War Years (1983) This Bridge Called My Back (1981)

Queer Theory: Cherrie Moraga
An extensive list and discussion of Cherrie Moraga's works via the perspective of queer theory.

Voices From the Gaps: Cherrie Moraga
Provides biographical information on the author as well as a bibliography of works by and about Cherrie Moraga.