![]() ![]() She attended City College of New York and obtained her master's degree at Brooklyn College. Sapphire dropped out of high school, moved to San Francisco where she enrolled in City College of San Francisco, only to drop out and become a “hippie”. After a disagreement over where the family would live, the family parted ways, with Sapphire’s mother "kind of abandon them". She was one of four children of an Army couple who moved all over the world. Sapphire was born Ramona Lofton in Fort Ord, California. ![]() Ramona Lofton, known professionally as Sapphire, is an American author and performance poet. Currently-lives in New York City, New York.Awards-Fellow Award in Literature from United States.Education-B.A., City College of New York M.F.A., Brooklyn.An electrifying first novel that shocks by its language, its circumstances, and its brutal honesty, Push recounts a young black street-girl's horrendous and redemptive journey through a Harlem inferno.įor Precious Jones, 16 and pregnant with her father's child, miraculous hope appears and the world begins to open up for her when a courageous, determined teacher bullies, cajoles, and inspires her to learn to read, to define her own feelings and set them down in a diary. ![]()
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