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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn was innate within Manila, Philippines in 1949. By using her mixed background, the Scotch-Irish-French-Filipino mother and the Filipino-Spanish father using of these Chinese ascendent, Hagedorn adds the unique perspective to Asian American performance and literature. Her mixed media style typically incorporates song, poetry, images, and spoken dialog. Moving to San Francisco inside 1963, Hagedorn received her education at a Western Conservatory Theater expert training program. To farther pursue playwriting and music, she moved to New York within 1978.

Joseph Papp produced her first play Mango Tango inside 1978. Hagedorn's more productions include Tenement Lover, Sanctum Food, & Teenytown.Inside 1985, 1986, & 1988, she received a Macdowell Colony Fellowships, which helped enable her to write Dogeaters. Dogeaters illuminates several different aspects of Filipino experience, focusing on the influence of America across radio, television, & cinema. She shows a complexness of the love-hate relationship several Filipinos around diaspora feel toward their past. When its publication around 1990, her novel earned the 1990 National Book Award nomination & an U.s. Book Award. Inside 1998, Lthe Jolla Playhouse produced a stage adaptation of Dogeaters.

She presently sleep in Up to date York by using her hubby & 2 girl & continues to exist as an acclaimed novelist, poet, storyteller, musician, dramatist, & multimedia system performance creative person.

Collection of Works

Dream Jungle. Viking Click. 2003. Burning Heart: The Portrait of the Philippines (using Marissa Roth). Rizzoli. 1999. A Mobster of Love. Houghton Mifflin. 1996. Charlie Chan is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian Western Fiction (editor). Penguin Books. 1993. Danger & Beauty. Penguin Books. 1993. Dogeaters. Penguin Books. 1990. Mango Tango. Y'Bird Magazine Unity.I. 1977. Dangerous Music. Momo's Click. 1975. Pet Food & Tropical Apparitions. Momo's Press. 1975. Chiquita Banana. Third Globe Women. Tertiary Globe Communications. 1972.

Anthologies edited by others which include Hagedorn's work
4 Young Women. Ed. Kenneth Rexroth. 1972. Instance To Greez! Conjuration From either a Third Globe. Introd. Maya Angelou. Eds. Janice Mirikitani, et al. Glide Saloon., 1975 Our contries Innate & Foreign: An Anthology of Asian U.s. Poetry. Eds. Fay Chiang, et al. Sunbury Click Books, 1979. Breaking Silence: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian Our contries Poets. A Greenfield View Click, 1983. A Open Boat: Verse form From either Asian United states of america. Ed. Garrett Hongo. Anchor Books, 1993. ''Stars Don't Could have However in the Sky: Music & Myth.'' Just released York Click. 1999.

Jessica Hagedorn Checks Into the "Pink Palace"
Interview about her animated series on the Oxygen Network, from Asian American Film.

Excerpt from Film Noir
Text excerpt.

The Filipino Book Barn: Jessica Hagedorn
Lists and reviews notable book publications with covers.

Eclectica: Gangster of Love
Review by Allen Gaborro.

Salon: Gangster of Love
Stephanie Zacharek reviews Hagedorn's second novel.

Jessica Hagedorn Web Resources
Links to Internet sources about and by the author.

Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
Basic biographical data, summary of major works, and a critical analysis of whether Hagedorn's work belongs to an Asian American aesthetic.

Modern American Poets: Jessica Hagedorn
Texts, articles and poems published online, with biographical information.

Jessica Hagedorn: Cultivating the Art of the Melange
From the New York Times News Service.