Ana-Maurine Lara (born 1975) is a Dominican American lesbian poet, novelist and Black feminist scholar.
[1] Lara is a long-time LGBT human rights activist and supporter, having served on the board of directors for the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission and the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice.
Her creative work and scholarship focus on questions of Black and Indigenous women's freedom, love and ancestors.
[2][3][4] She has been a faculty member in the department of Anthropology, and most recently, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies.
She completed a master's degree and a PhD in the joint program in African American Studies and Anthropology at Yale University.