Dr Jennifer Rahim
Dr Jennifer Rahim is a Senior Lecturer in Literature in the Department of Liberal Arts, The University of the West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. She is a critic, poet and short story writer. Her articles on Caribbean literature have appeared in MaComere, The Journal of West Indian Literature, Small Axe, Anthurium, The Trinidad and Tobago Review and The Woman, the Writer and Caribbean Society. Ed. Helen Pyne-Timothy (1998). She edited with Barbara Lalla a collection of Cultural Studies essays entitled, Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon (UWI Press 2009).
Her creative publications include three poetry collections: Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists (1992), Between the Fence and the Forest (2002) and Approaching Sabbaths (2009). She has one collection of short stories, Songster and Other Stories (2007). Her poetry collection, Approaching Sabbaths wasawarded the 2010 Casa de las Américas Prize for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole.
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