Shara McCallum

From Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including No Ruined Stone (forthcoming 2021) and Madwoman (2017), which won the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motton Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. McCallum’s poems and essays have appeared in journals, anthologies, and textbooks throughout the US, Caribbean, Latin America, Europe, and Israel and have been translated into several languages, including Spanish, Italian, French, Romanian, Dutch, and Turkish. La historia es un Cuarto/History is a Room, an anthology of McCallum’s poems, translated and introduced by Adalber Salas Hernandez, will be published in 2021 by Mantis Editores in Mexico.