Life

Her parents are Grenadian, they returned there shorty after her birth.
She studied in St Georges.
a degree in English and Spanish, in 1972.
She taught History and Spanish in Grenada, and in St Lucia.
In 1980, she graduated from Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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, with a Masters in Latin American Studies.
She graduated from the London School of Economics

London School of Economics

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 with a Ph.D. in Government.

From 1984 to 1995, she taught at the University of North London

University of North London

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.
She teaches at the University of Maryland

University of Maryland

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Poetry

• Because the Dawn Breaks Karia Press, 1985, ISBN 9780946918096
• Rotten Pomerack Virago, 1992, ISBN 9781853815560
• Lady in a Boat, Peepal Tree, 2003, ISBN 9781900715850

Novels

• Angel, Women's Press, 1987, ISBN 9780704340824; Seal Press, 1998, ISBN 9781580050142
• The Colour of Forgetting, Virago Press, 1995, ISBN 9781853818929

External links

• "An Interview With Merle Collins", Betty Wilson, Callaloo, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Winter, 1993), pp. 94-107
• http://jsse.revues.org/index339.html