Merle Collins

Merle Collins (born 1950 Aruba) is a Grenadian poet, and short story writer.^[1]

Life

Her parents are Grenadian, they returned there shorty after her birth. She studied in St Georges. a degree in English and Spanish, in 1972.^[2] She taught History and Spanish in Grenada, and in St Lucia. In 1980, she graduated from Georgetown University, with a Masters in Latin American Studies. She graduated from the London School of Economics with a Ph.D. in Government.

From 1984 to 1995, she taught at the University of North London. She teaches at the University of Maryland.^[3][4]

Works

Poetry

• Because the Dawn Breaks Karia Press, 1985, ISBN 9780946918096
• Rotten Pomerack Virago, 1992, ISBN 9781853815560
• Lady in a Boat, Peepal Tree, 2003, ISBN 9781900715850

Novels

• Angel, Women's Press, 1987, ISBN 9780704340824; Seal Press, 1998, ISBN 9781580050142
• The Colour of Forgetting, Virago Press, 1995, ISBN 9781853818929

Short stories

• Rain Darling Women's Press, 1990, ISBN 9780704342583

References

1. ^ http://www.peepaltreepress.com/author_display.asp?au_id=116
2. ^ http://www.mona.uwi.edu/conferences/literatures/profiles/collins.htm
3. ^ http://www.sgu.edu/news-events/news-archives04-DrMerleCollinsGrenadian.html
4. ^ http://umdenglisharchive.info/mcollins/

External links

• "An Interview With Merle Collins", Betty Wilson, Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 94-107
• http://jsse.revues.org/index339.html