Tanya Shirley

Tanya Shirley (born 1976) is a Jamaican literature}Jamaican poet and academic.

Life
Shirley was born in Jamaica, and graduated from the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Mona, Jamaica. She then studied at the University of Maryland, where she was awarded an M.F.A. in Creative Writing. She teaches at UWI.

Her work has appeared in literary magazines such as Small Axe and The Caribbean Writer, and anthologies such as So Much Things to Say: 100 Calabash Poets. Her first poetry collection, She Who Sleeps with Bones, was published in 2009, and was a bestseller in Jamaica.

Publications

 * She Who Sleeps with Bones. Leeds, UK: Peepal Tree Press, 2009.

Audio / video

 * Tanya Shirley: Reading from her poems. London: Poetry Archive, 2011.