Olive Senior

Olive Senior was born on 23 December 1941 in the rural parish of Trelawny, the seventh of the ten children of a peasant couple. Sent as a child to well-off relatives in Haddo, in Westmoreland, she thus came to know both extremes of the Jamaican scale of colour and class. A journalist at the Gleaner at nineteen, trained in Cardiff and then in Ottawa, she edited the journal Social and Economic Studies and then the Jamaica Journal. She left after Hurricane Gilbert in 1988 and lives in Toronto; she was Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2021 to 2024.

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• Short storiesSummer Lightning and Other StoriesOlive Senior · 1986Literature