Merle Collins

Merle Collins was born in Grenada and studied in Jamaica and the USA. After university, she served as a coordinator for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean with Maurice Bishop’s People’s Revolutionary Government in Grenada. During this time, her first works were published in Callaloo: Four Writers from Grenada (1984); her first collection of poetry, Because the Dawn Breaks appeared a year later. In 1987, Collins published her first novel, Angel. Her short story collection, Rain Darling (1990) and poetry collection, Rotten Pomerack (1992), were followed by her second novel, The Colour of Forgetting, published in 1995. She became a member of the Advisory Board in 1988. For more information about Merle and her writing visit www.geocities.com/merlecollins.