Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was born and raised in the Philippines. Hagedorn mother is Scots-Irish-French-Filipino and her father is Chinese ancestor. She has mixed media style that incorporates songs, poetry, images, and spoken dialogue. In 1963, she moved to San Francisco and she achieved her education at American Conservatory Theater training program. She later than moved to New York in 1978. A Man named Joseph Papp than produced her first play named Mango Tango that same year. In 1985, 1986, and 1988, Hagedorn received Macdowll colony Fellowships, which helped her write Dogeaters. As she grew with her work, she developed a love-hate relationship to many Filipinos. Today, Hagedorn lives in New York still with her husband and two daughters, and still to this day, she continues to be a poet, storyteller, musician, playwright, and multimedia performance artist.
Dogeaters is one of her best selling novels. Which later than became a play. It is about a graphic comic book version of a woman's coming of age in Imelda Marcos' Philippines.
Another book that Jessica Tarhata Hagedorn wrote is Danger and Beauty. danger and Beauty contains many different poems. She wrote this in the 1970's. Hagedorn actually wrote this in dedication to Kenneth Rexroth who first published the poems.
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