Addena Sumter-Freitag is a Canadian author, poet, performer and speaker. She grew up in

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. Sumter-Freitag has performed her one-woman play ''Stay Black & Die'' across Canada and in Australia since 1995. It won Best Production at the

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, and was published by Commodore Books in 2007. In 2009, Wattle and Daub Books published her collection of poems, ''Back in the Days''. ''Canadian Literature'' called the latter a "memorably intimate journey, relating her experiences growing up as a black girl in Winnipeg's North End in the 1950s" and noted that "Sumter-Freitag's will undoubtedly become one of the most prominent poetic voices of Canada's Black community." Sumter-Freitag is a seventh generation African Canadian.''The Great Black North''
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Bibliography

Drama

*''Stay Black & Die'' (2007)

Poetry

*''Back in the Days'' (2009)

References

External links

"When 'your ears are tingling from the inside out': Addena Sumter-Freitag on Storytelling and Recording Life, from Stage to Page"
interview by Christine Lyons
"Writing a Home for Prairie Blackness: Addena Sumter Freitag’s Stay Black and Die and Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain"
article by Karina Vernon *The official website of Addena Sumter-Freitag i
www.addenasumterfreitag.com
Living people Canadian stage actresses Canadian women dramatists and playwrights Year of birth missing (living people) Canadian women poets 21st-century Canadian actresses 21st-century Canadian poets 21st-century Canadian dramatists and playwrights 21st-century Canadian women writers {{Canada-poet-stub