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by Patricia Harkins-Pierre (Author)
Love, loss, friendship, sexuality, familial relationships, the sensory Caribbean, political and artistic figures from Margaret Thatcher to Joan of Arc to Audre Lorde: Patricia Harkins-Pierre masterfully and with an exquisite luminosity explores all from a distinctly yin perspective of the human experience. Mary Alexander
Author Biography
Patricia Harkins-Pierre is the Chair of English and Modern Languages at the University of the Virgin Islands, St. Thomas campus, where she has taught since 1989. As a teacher and scholar, her interest in early childhood literacy and literature is long standing, as is her interest in Caribbean popular culture. She is also a storyteller, and writes stories, poems and songs. Her Ph.D. is in Creative Writing from the University of Southern Mississippi, but she earned her BA in English at the University of South Alabama. While working on her Ph.D. she studied poetry with Mervyn Morris at the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, Jamaica and later with Derek Walcott as USM. She has served on the Advisory Board of the Caribbean Writer, UVI's Literary Journal since the early 1990s. One of her earliest poems was originally published by Negative Capability, USA's literary Journal, in 1984. Her poetry was featured at the Parnassus Event in London 2012, which was linked to the Summer Olympics. She and her husband, Caribbean gospel artist Glenworth Pierre from Dominica, often minister together at local churches in the US Virgin Islands and abroad.
