The Philadelphia Award

More about Philadelphia Award winner Lorene Cary

Author
Black Ice (Knopf), 1991
The Price of a Child (Knopf) 1995 (Chosen as the first selection in the new "One Book, One Philadelphia" project)
Pride (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday) 1998

Founder of Non-Profit Arts and Culture Organization
Art Sanctuary, 1998

University Lecturer
University of Pennsylvania, senior lecturer in creative writing (currently)

Guest Lecturer
Harvard University
Bryn Mawr University
Denison University
Illinois Weslyan University
Georgia State University
St. John's University

Honorary Doctorates
1992 Colby College, Maine
1997 Keene State College, New Hampshire
1997 Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia

Awards
1995 - Pew Fellowship in the Arts Fellowship
1996 - Shirley Chisholm Award in Humanities from the Philadelphia Congress of the National Congress of Black Women
1998 - Provost's Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania
1999 - American Red Cross Spectrum Rising Star Award for community service
2000 - Philadelphia Historical Society Founder's Medal for History in Culture
2001 - St. Paul's School Alumni Association Award for Distinguished Service
2001 - Advocate Community Development Corporation's Award for Urban Excellence
2002 - Women's Way Agent of Change Award
2002 - First World Theatre's H. German Wilson Griot Award
2003 - The Philadelphia Award

Education
1978 - BA, University of Pennsylvania
1978 - MA, University of Pennsylvania
1980 - MA, University of Sussex, Falmer, England

Boards and memberships
Panel for The American Heritage Dictionary
Union Benevolent Association
PEN and the Author's Guild