Shara McCallum

From Jamaica, of Jamaican and Venezuelan parentage, Shara McCallum is the author of seven books, published in the US & UK. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Musgrave Medal, NEA Poetry Fellowship, Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and OCM Bocas Caribbean Poetry Prize, among other awards. Currently Cheney Creative Fellow at the University of Leeds, McCallum is an Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English at Penn State University.