Featured Poet: Shara McCollum
Originally from Kingston, Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of several books of poetry: The Face of Water: New and Selected Poems (Peepal Tree Press, UK, 2011); This Strange Land (Alice James Books, US, 2011); a finalist for the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature; Song of Thieves (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 2003); and The Water Between Us (University of Pittsburgh Press, US, 1999) winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize for Poetry