Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison was born on 1 August 1947 in Kingston, the eighth of nine children. Trained as a painter at the Jamaica School of Art and then at the Art Students League of New York, she taught drawing and worked in advertising before devoting herself to writing. From 1991 she taught in the United States and Canada, notably at the University of Michigan, where she is professor emerita. She received the Musgrave Gold Medal in 1999 and was Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2017 to 2020.

In the catalogue 1

• PoetryI Am Becoming My MotherLorna Goodison · 1986Literature