Kathleen Collins, American filmmaker and playwright (died 1988)

Kathleen Collins

American writer and filmmaker (1942–1988)

Kathleen Collins was an American poet, playwright, writer, filmmaker, director, civil rights activist, and educator from Jersey City, New Jersey. Her two feature narratives – The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) and Losing Ground (1982) – furthered the range of Black women's…