Mordecai, Pamela

Pamela Mordecai was born in Jamaica. She has published five collections of poetry and an anthology of short fiction. She has also written many textbooks and edited or co-edited groundbreaking anthologies of Caribbean writing. Her poetry for children is widely anthologized. Her poems have been shortlisted for the Canada Writes CBC Poetry Prize and the Bridport Prize (U.K.). She is the recipient of the Institute of Jamaica s Centenary and Bronze Musgrave Medals, the Vic Reid Award for Children s Writing, and the Burla Award. Pamela lives in Kitchener.