DEENA BLAZEJACK

Deena Blazejack holds a Master of Arts degree in English from the University of Miami.  She is Professor Emeritus of English, Literature and Creative Writing at Miami Dade College, where she was an endowed chair recipient for excellence in teaching.  She co-founded of the EcoUrban Honors Program—an interdisciplinary, residential course of study in environmental concerns—for which she was awarded Innovation of the Year by the League for Innovation in the Community College as well the top award for environmental education by the  State of Florida.  She now serves on the National Advisory Board for the Earth Ethics Institute at the college and is a founding Board Member of Earth Literacy, an organization which promotes environmental awareness and education in South Florida and throughout the nation.  She also pioneered The Emerging Voice, a series of honors classes dedicated to American women writers.

In her poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction Deena blends her deep concern for ecology, science, the possibilities of language, Native American history and mythology, the South Florida bioregion, history, environmental ethics and feminism.  She has participated in many on- and off-campus readings and the Miami Book Fair.  She is currently working on a novel as well as on several creative non-fiction pieces for an anthology.