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Lorna Goodison

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Born: July 31 1947

Lorna Goodison was born in Jamaica, and has won numerous awards for her writing in both poetry and prose, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, the Henry Russel Award for Exceptional Creative Work from the University of Michigan, and one of Canada’s largest literary prizes, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People . Her work has been included in the major anthologies and collections of contemporary poetry over the past twenty-five years, such as the Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, the Harper Collins World Reader, the Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry, the Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, and Longman Masters of British Literature.

Along with her award winning memoir, she has published three collections of short stories and nine collections of poetry.

Her work has been translated into many languages, and she has been a central figure at literary festivals throughout the world. Lorna Goodison teaches at the University of Michigan, where she is the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afro American Studies.

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Lorna Goodison

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Books from Lorna Goodison

From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island

By Love Possessed

Turn Thanks: Poems

I Am Becoming My Mother

Supplying Salt and Light

Baby Mother and the King of Swords

To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: POEMS

Controlling the Silver

Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures

Mother Muse

Selected Poems

The Giant Book of Poetry

Quartet of Poems (Modern Women Writers)

Quartet of Stories (Modern Women Writers)

Writers: Their Lives and Works

Collected Poems

Travelling Mercies

Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems