Tanya Shirley (born 1976) is a Jamaican poet.
Tanya Shirley (born 1976) is a Jamaican poet.
Tanya Shirley was born in Jamaica in 1976. [1] She attended high school in Canada before returning to Jamaica to study at the University of the West Indies, where she switched from studying social science to studying English literature. [2] She later gained an MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland. [3] She teaches in the Department of Literatures as a adjunct lecturer at UWI, Mona. [4]
Shirley's debut poetry collection, She Who Sleeps With Bones (2009), was a best-seller in Jamaica. [1]
In 2017 she married Alan Johnstone, a financial investigator. [5]
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