Philip, M. Nourbese

M. NourbeSe Philip is the author of the play "Coups and Calypsos", two novels, "Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence", and "Harriet's Daughter" (Heinemann; The Women's Press); three non-fiction works, "Frontiers", "Showing Grit", and "A Genealogy of Resistance"; and three books of poetry, including "She Tries Her Tongue" and "Her Silence Softly Breaks", winner of the Casa de las Americas Prize. She is a Fellow in Poetry of the Guggenheim Foundation, and recipient of the Toronto Arts Award for Literature.