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Nourbese Philip is a Carribean-born poet, novelist, essayist, and playwright who lives in Toronto, Canada. She has four books of poetry, including She Tries her Tongue, which won the Casa de las Americas prize. Her first novel, Harriet's Daughter, published by Heinemann in England and Women's Press in Canada, was a finalist for a number of awards; her story "Stop Frame" was given the Lawrence Foundation Award by Prairie Schooner; in 1995, she recieved the Arts Foundation of Toronto Award in writing and publishing; and she has been a Macdowell Fellow and Guggenheim Fellow. In 1997 her play Coups and Calypsos was produced in Toronto. |
