Michelle Cliff is a Jamaican-American writer and teacher. Her work
includes the short story collections Bodies of Water and The Store of a
Million Items--the latter chosen by the Village Voice as one of the best
books of 1998--and the novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and
Free Enterprise.
She held the Allan K. Smith Professorship of English Language and
Literature at Trinity College, 1993-1999. She was the recipient of two NEA
fellowships, a fellowship from the Artists Foundation of Massachusetts;
she was a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar, New Zealand; the recipient of
the Martin Luther King, Jr., Cesar Chávez, and Rosa Parks Visiting
Professorship at the University of Michigan, was twice visiting writer at
the Vermont Studio Center, visiting professor at Johannes Gutenberg
Universität, Mainz, Germany, etc. Her most recent work includes the novel
Into the Interior and the essay collection Apocalypso, as yet unpublished.
Her translations of seven poems by Federico García Lorca are forthcoming
in the American Poetry Review. "
The beauty and authority of her writing is coupled in a rare way with
profound insight. - Toni Morrison |
Michelle
Cliff