About Hattie Gossett
Hattie Gossett is an African-American feminist playwright, poet, and magazine editor. Her work focuses on bolstering the self-esteem of young black women. At Rutgers, she and Barbara Masekela created one of the first courses on writings by African-American and African women. Gossett was "involved in the planning stages" of Essence magazine, which was first published in 1970, and she was an early participant in the Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press collective founded in 1980 by Audre Lorde and Barbara Smith.
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