The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow

In 2022, The Girl Who Fell From the Sky was listed among 52 books banned by the Alpine School District following the implementation of Utah law H.B. The book won the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (2008) and was nominated for the Goodreads Choice Award for Debut Author (2010) and Carnegie Medal (2011). The Girl Who Fell From the Sky was published Februby Algonquin Books. ĭurrow was named a Power 100 Leader by Ebony Magazine in 2010 and was nominated for a 2011 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Debut.

The Festival presented films, readings, workshops, a family event, and the largest West Coast '((Loving Day celebration))'.ĭurrow created a new festival called the Mixed Remixed Festival which premiered June 14, 2014. The Festival-which ran from 2008 to 2012-celebrated stories of the Mixed experience including stories about biracial identity, transracially adopted families, and interracial and intercultural relationships and friendships. In 2008 Durrow became a founder of the now defunct Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival. ĭurrow was a host of the award-winning weekly podcast Mixed Chicks Chat focused on issues of being racially and culturally mixed.

She left Cravath in 1997 to pursue a literary career.ĭurrow worked as a consultant to the National Basketball Association and National Football League as a Life Skills trainer from 2000 to 2006. in 1995.ĭurrow's career began at Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City, where she worked as a corporate litigator on antitrust, commercial contracts, and employment discrimination cases. She then attended Yale Law School and received her J.D. She continued her education at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and received a M.S. She majored in English at Stanford University and wrote a weekly column for the Stanford Daily, graduating in 1991 with Honors. In 1980 her family settled in Portland, Oregon, where she attended Jefferson High School. Biography Early life and education ĭurrow, the daughter of a Danish immigrant and an African-American Air Force man, grew up in part overseas in Turkey, Germany, and Denmark. Durrow (born June 21, 1969) is an American writer, author of best-seller The Girl Who Fell From the Sky, and the winner of the 2008 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially-Engaged Fiction. Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

The Girl Who Fell from the Sky by Heidi W. Durrow