Junauda Petrus
American author, filmmaker, performance artist
About Junauda Petrus
Born 1981. Junauda Petrus is an American writer, filmmaker, performance artist and author.
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Career Petrus' piece There Are Other Worlds was performed at Intermedia Arts in 2015. She and Erik Ehn co-wrote Queen, which was performed at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre in 2016. This poem was contributed to the anthology How I Resist: Activism and Hope for a New Generation by Maureen Johnson, which was released in 2018.
Her 2019 novel, The Stars and the Blackness Between Them, In February 2021, Petrus announced that she was working on a film adaptation of the novel.
Petrus has also been awarded several fellowships.
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American author, filmmaker, performance artist
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Junauda Petrus was born on 9 July 1981 in Minneapolis.
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Junauda Petrus is a writer, filmmaker, performance artist and author.
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Junauda Petrus is American.
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