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Michelle Cliff

Died in 2016

Michelle Cliff was born in 1946 in Kingston and grew up between Jamaica and New York. A graduate in European history of Wagner College, she continued her studies at the Warburg Institute of the University of London. An editor at Norton, she then taught literature, notably at Trinity College in Hartford. The partner of the poet Adrienne Rich until the latter's death in 2012, she died on 12 June 2016 at her home in Santa Cruz, California.

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