Grenadian writer Merle Collins was born in Aruba in 1950. She is the author of two novels, Angel (1987, published in revised version in 2011) and The Colour of Forgetting (1995), two collections of short stories, Rain Darling (1990) and The Ladies Are Upstairs (2011), and three collections of poetry, Because the Dawn Breaks: Poems Dedicated to the Grenadian People (1985), Rotten Pomerack (1992), and Lady in a Boat (2003).

She is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Maryland, and divides her time between Grenada and the USA.

31 January 2023: Secondary sources updated, including with a reference to a forthcoming Festschrift in honour of Merle Collins, edited by Tanya Shields and Isis Semaj-Hall and to appear in the journal Caribbean Quarterly.

26 August 2021: Secondary sources updated.

24 March 2021: Site created.

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