Arts for the 21st Century

Opal Palmer Adisa

Opal Palmer Adisa

Opal Palmer Adisa writes poetry, prose, essays, and plays. She has lectured and performed her work throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Germany, Spain, France, England, Prague, Italy and Bosnia. An award-winner, Adisa has 25 titles to her credit, among which are Pretty Like Jamaica (2023), The Storyteller’s Return (2022) and Portia Dreams, the authorised children’s biography of Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister (2021). Adisa is the editor of the anthology 100+ Voices for Miss Lou (2021) and the editor-in-chief of Interviewing the Caribbean, a literary/visual journal, and Caribbean Conjunctures, the Caribbean Studies Association’s journal.