Tanya Shirley is an award-winning poet and educator. She lectures in the department of literatures at the University of the West Indies as well as a fellow of Cave Canem, a nonprof...view moreTanya Shirley is an award-winning poet and educator. She lectures in the department of literatures at the University of the West Indies as well as a fellow of Cave Canem, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry. Her work has appeared widely including in "The Caribbean Writer"," New Caribbean Poetry: An Anthology," and "Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism."view less