SHARA MCCALLUM
From Jamaica, SHARA MCCALLUM is the author of five books of poetry, published in the US and UK, most recently Madwoman, winner of the 2018 OCM Bocas Poetry Prize for Caribbean Literature and the 2018 Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize. Her work has been published in the US, the Caribbean, and Europe, has been translated into several languages, and has received such recognition as a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and a Poetry Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Formerly the Director of the Stadler Center for Poetry, McCallum is now a Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State University.
And most recently, she was the judge for the 2019 Dogfish Head Poetry Contest!
