Afaa Michael Weaver (born
Michael S. Weaver) is the author
of nine collections of poetry,
several plays, and some short
fiction. His first book of poetry, Water
Song, was published in 1985 as
part of the Callaloo series. Since
Water Song, Weaver has
published eight more collections of
poetry, including Multitudes,
Sandy Point, and The Ten Lights
of God, all of which appeared in
2000.
His full length play Rosa was
produced in 1993 at Venture
Theater in Philadelphia under a
small-Equity contract. His short
fiction appears in Gloria Naylor's
Children of the Night and in
Maria Gillan's Identity Lessons:
Seasonal Fruits
He has received NEA,
Pew, and Pennsylvania Arts
Council fellowships. In 2002 he
taught at National Taiwan
University as a Fulbright fellow. In
playwriting Afaa has received the
PDI Award from ETA Theater in
Chicago. In April 2005 in Beijing
he received a gold friendship medal
from the Chinese Writers
Association. He teaches at
Simmons College where he is also
director of the Zora Neale Hurston
Literary Center and chairman of
the Simmons International Chinese
Poetry Conference. Tess Onwueme, the Nigerian
playwright, gave him the Ibo name
“Afaa,” meaning “oracle.”
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