High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Velina Hasu Houston, born Velina Avisa Hasu Houston, (on May 5, 1957) is an award winning American playwright, essayist, poet, author, editor, and screenwriter. She has had many works produced, presented, and published, with some drawing from her experience of being multiracial, as well as from the immigrant experiences of her family and those she encountered growing up in Junction City, Kansas.