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<\/a>Nikki Giovanni is an award winning poet and writer. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on June 7, 1943. She was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio and graduated with honors in history from her Fisk University. Since 1987, she has been on the faculty at Virginia Tech, where she is a University Distinguished Professor. She is the NAACP Image Award winner for Literature in 1998, 2000, and 2003. She won the Langston Hughes award for Distinguished Contributions to Arts and Letters in 1996 and was the first recipient for the Rosa Parks Women of Courage Award in 2001. She has been awarded 21 honorary doctorates from various universities nationwide. Her book include \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Feeling, Black Talk,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Black Judgement,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Blues For All the Changes.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Her CD, The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection, was nominated for a Grammy award. She has just completed a children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book about Rosa Parks. I met Ms. Giovanni at the California Institute of Technology on February 9th when she spoke on campus. <\/p>\n