Background
Marcia Douglas was born on December 22, 1961, in Watford, England, to Leo and Bernice Douglas.
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
In 1997, Marcia received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton for creative writing and Afro-U.S./Caribbean literature.
4400 Vestal Pkwy E, Binghamton, NY 13902, USA
In 1997, Marcia received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton for creative writing and Afro-U.S./Caribbean literature.
(Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in Ja...)
Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in Jamaica, presents poems beginning with the image of the voicelessness of the country people who witness the coming of lights to Cocoa Bottom but have no one amongst them to record the event. Each poem has its own poignant individually, but there is also a powerful sense of architecture which runs through the collection.
https://www.amazon.com/Electricity-Bottom-Poetry-Society-Recommendation/dp/1900715287/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(A poetic novel melds the past and the present of the auth...)
A poetic novel melds the past and the present of the author's native Jamaica through the voices of a series of women, both real and mythological, whose lives embody the country's mythology, colonial history, and matrilineal traditions.
https://www.amazon.com/Madam-Fate-Marcia-Douglas/dp/1569471347/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmesh...)
Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmeshed in the world of her fictional characters in this inspiring and poetic novel about hope and the ravages of recent Jamaican economic and social upheavals. When poverty, emigration, and political turmoil in the fictional world oblige Flamingo's characters to disperse, the one-eyed protagonist Alva solicits Flamingo's help to bring them back together. The innovative novel is organized as a writers' notebook and sprinkled with recipes, herbal remedies, dream interpretations, and various other interjections evoking the culture and traditions of Jamaica.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845230167/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(“Is me - Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-...)
“Is me - Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-down man, Bob Marley sleeps in a clock tower built on the site of a lynching in Half Way Tree, Kingston. The ghosts of Marcus Garvey and King Edward VII are there too, drinking whiskey and playing solitaire.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B076HXGZGF/?tag=2022091-20
2016
Marcia Douglas was born on December 22, 1961, in Watford, England, to Leo and Bernice Douglas.
In 1997, Marcia received a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Binghamton for creative writing and Afro-U.S./Caribbean literature.
Douglas traveled to Jamaica at age six, and there recognized her true home; she spent most of her childhood there. Her debut novel, Madam Fate, is inspired by the island and its people, especially its "proud women - women who tucked their sorrow into the folds of their skirts, held their heads high and set their faces like flints."
Marcia was a teacher at the State University of New York in Oneonta, New York. In 1998, she became an assistant professor of the Department of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Nowadays Douglas is a professor of Caribbean Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Colorado Boulder.
Marcia Douglas is most commonly known as the author of the novels, Madam Fate and Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells as well as the poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom. Her The Marvellous Equations of the Dread was long listed for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
(Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in Ja...)
1999(A poetic novel melds the past and the present of the auth...)
1999(Flamingo, a young writer in Jamaica, finds herself enmesh...)
2005(“Is me - Bob. Bob Marley.” Reincarnated as homeless Fall-...)
2016
