Marriott, D. S.

D.S. Marriott was born in Nottingham 1963 of Jamaican parentage and was educated at the University of Sussex. He has taught there and now teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written many articles on poetics and is the author of "On Black Men" published 2000 by the University Presses of Edinburgh, and Columbia, New York; and "Letters to Langston," published in 2006 by the University Press of Rutgers, New Jersey. His previous collection of poems was Incognegro (Salt Publishing, 2005).