Four Left Turns

Beanstalk Reading Tomorrow Night!

Marcia Douglas, 8:00 PM, Hollins Room

Marcia Douglas was born in England and grew up in Jamaica. She is the author of the novels Madam Fate (1999) and Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells (2005) as well as a collection of poetry, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (1999), which received a Poetry Book Society Recommendation in the United Kingdom. Her work has appeared in anthologies and journals internationally including The Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Enlaces: Transnacionalidad- El Caribe y su Diáspora- Lengua, Literatura y Cultura en los Albores del Siglo XXI, Whispers from Under the Cotton Tree Root, The Forward Book of Poetry 2000, Cultural Activism: Poetic Voices, Political Voices, The Edexcel Anthology for GCSE English, and Sisters of Caliban: Contemporary Women Poets of the Caribbean. Douglas lives in Broomfield, Colorado.