Pamela Mordecai

Pamela Mordecai is a poet, novelist, short fiction writer, and playwright. de book of Joseph, her most recent book of poetry, was a finalist for the 2023 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. Mordecai’s children’s poems have been widely anthologised and used in language arts curricula all over the world. de book of Mary Magdalene on which she is working will extend her New Testament trilogy in Jamaican Patwa into a tetralogy. A video collection of her poetry is archived at Memorial University of Newfoundland’s Centre for Innovation in Teaching and Learning and the Digital Library of the Caribbean. She lives in Toronto.