Millicent GRAHAM

Millicent GRAHAM
2009 Resident
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Caribbean
  • Americas
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
  • Caribbean
  • Jamaica
  • Americas
English

Millicent GRAHAM. A recipient of two Calabash International Literary Festival Scholarships, Graham has also won the 2004 Jamaica Observers Annual Literary Award for Poetry. Her work has been published in The Caribbean Writer Volume 17; Bearing Witness, and Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters; her first collection of poems, The Damp in Things , was published by Peepal Tree Press in 2009. She participates courtesy of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the US Department of State.

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