Pamela Mordecai

Pamela Mordecai writes poetry, plays, and long and short fiction. Born and raised in Jamaica, she and her family immigrated to Canada in 1994. A former teacher and teacher-trainer with a PhD in English, Mordecai has authored and co-authored numerous textbooks and edited and co-edited groundbreaking anthologies, especially of Caribbean women’s writing. Her poetry has been translated into Spanish, French, Romanian, and Serbian. With her late husband, Martin, she wrote a reference work, Culture and Customs of Jamaica. She has published a novel, a short story collection, five children’s books, and nine poetry collections, the latest of which are de book of Joseph, which completes her New Testament trilogy in Jamaican patwa, and A Fierce Green Place: New and Collected Poems. Her poetry is archived at https://mordecai.citl.mun.ca/.