Ina Coolbrith
Ina Donna Coolbrith (an haife ta Josephine Donna Smith ; 10 ga Maris,1841 – 29 ga Fabrairu,1928)mawaƙiyar Ba’amurke ce, marubuciyar,ma’aikacin ɗakin karatu,kuma fitacciyar jigo a cikin al’ummar adabi na yankin San Francisco Bay .Ana kiranta da "Mawaƙiya mai dadi na California",[1]ita ce mace ta farko ta California Poet Laureate kuma mawaƙiyar farko na kowace ƙasa ta Amurka.
Coolbrith,haifaffiyar yar'uwar Ikilisiyar Yesu Almasihu na Wanda ya kafa Joseph Smith,ya bar al'ummar Mormon tun tana yarinya don shiga matasanta a Los Angeles, California,inda ta fara buga waƙa.Ta dakatar da auren ƙuruciya don yin gidanta a San Francisco,kuma ta sadu da marubuta Bret Harte da Charles Warren Stoddard waɗanda ta kafa "Golden Gate Trinity" tare da haɗin gwiwa tare da mujallar wallafe-wallafen Overland Monthly. Waƙarta ta sami sanarwa mai kyau daga masu suka da kafa mawaƙa kamar Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce da Alfred Lord Tennyson.Ta gudanar da wuraren shakatawa na adabi a gidanta da ke Dutsen Rasha - ta wannan hanyar ta gabatar da sabbin marubuta ga masu wallafawa.Coolbrith ta yi abokantaka da mawaki Joaquin Miller kuma ta taimaka masa ya sami suna a duniya.
Yayin da Miller ya zagaya Turai kuma ya cika burinsu na ziyartar kabarin Lord Byron, Coolbrith ya kula da 'yarsa ta Wintu da kuma danginta.A sakamakon haka, ta zo zama a Oakland kuma ta karɓi matsayin ma'aikacin ɗakin karatu na birni. Waƙarta ta sha wahala sakamakon tsawon lokacin aikinta, amma ta jagoranci tsarar matasa masu karatu ciki har da Jack London da Isadora Duncan.Bayan ta yi aiki na shekaru 19,masu kula da ɗakin karatu na Oakland sun yi kira da a sake tsarawa, kuma an kori Coolbrith.Ta koma San Francisco kuma membobin Bohemian Club sun gayyace ta don zama ma'aikacin laburarensu.
