Margaret D. Gill

Margaret Gill is a published poet whose work has appeared in several anthologies. Among her many awards are the Shankar’s International Children’s Poetry Competition, India, 1968 (2nd prize); the Frank Collymore Literary Award, Barbados, 1998 (1st prize, as well as the 2nd prize in 2007); and the Confucius Institute, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados, 2019 (2nd prize). She has also been named Poet Laureate of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, and was Honorary Fellow in Writing, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, in 2008. She is the author of Lyric You: In Celebration of Kamau Brathwaite’s 70th Birthday (2000), Rich Man in His Castle, Poor Ones Take the Street: Integrating a Canonical Text and Popular Culture (a study of In the Castle of My Skin by George Lamming, 2021), and Machinations of a Feminist (2021).