Age, Biography and Wiki
Aya de Leon was born on 1967 in Los Angeles, California, U.S., is an American novelist (born 1967). Discover Aya de Leon's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 57 years old?
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Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
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Aya de Leon Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
She is currently single. She is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about She's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, She has no children.
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Taj Mahal Anna de Leon |
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Aya de Leon Net Worth
Her net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Aya de Leon worth at the age of 57 years old? Aya de Leon’s income source is mostly from being a successful Novelist. She is from United States. We have estimated Aya de Leon's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Aya de Leon (born 1967) is an American novelist and activist who teaches at the University of California Berkeley.
She first came to national attention as a spoken-word artist in the underground poetry scene in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a hip-hop theater artist.
de Leon is of Puerto Rican, African-American, and West Indian heritage, and much of her work explores issues of race, gender, socio-economic class, body, nation and the climate crisis.
De Leon was born in Los Angeles in 1967, she is the daughter of Taj Mahal and his first wife, Anna de Leon.
De Leon attended Harvard University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts.
From 1995 to 2009, her work was published in various print journals and anthologies, including Essence Magazine.
From 1998 to 2008 she toured extensively as an independent artist.
After, she returned to the Bay Area and began to perform spoken word, she won a spot on the San Francisco Slam Team (they won the Western Region Poetry Slam in 2000).
In 2001, she began to develop the hip-hop theater show Thieves in the Temple: The Reclaiming of Hip Hop, focused on fighting sexism and consumerism in hip hop She began her college teaching career at Stanford University in 2001.
In 2006, she was chosen as the Director of June Jordan's Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley, where she currently teaches poetry and spoken word.
She earned her Master of Fine Arts in fiction from Antioch University Los Angeles.
In 2009, she stopped touring to start a family and transition to being a novelist.
In 2013 she began to blog and to write for various online outlets, such as Harper's Bazaar, xojane, Bitch Magazine, Ebony, Racialicious, Writers Digest, Fusion, Womans Day, Movement Strategy Center, and The Feminist Wire.
In 2014 she secured representation with literary agent Jenni Ferrari Adler of Union Literary in NYC.
In 2015, she sold her debut book, a feminist heist novel with a Latina Robin Hood protagonist in a two-book deal to Kensington Books in New York.
Her first novel, Uptown Thief, was published in 2016, the first of the "Justice Hustlers" series, which has been optioned for TV.
Aya is working on the pilot.
