Michelle Cliff

Michelle Cliff
Born 2 November 1946
Kingston
Alma mater Wagner College, University of London
Occupation novelist, poet, editor, teacher
Employer Trinity College

Michelle Cliff (born 2 November 1946) is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include No Telephone to Heaven, Abeng and Free Enterprise.

Cliff also has written short stories, prose poems and works of literary criticism. Her works explore the various, complex identity problems that stem from post-colonialism, as well as the difficulty of establishing an authentic, individual identity despite race and gender constructs. Cliff is a lesbian who grew up in Jamaica.

Background

Cliff was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1946 and moved with her family to New York City three years later.[1] She was educated at Wagner College and the Warburg Institute at the University of London. She has held academic positions at several colleges including Trinity College and Emory University.

Cliff was a contributor to the 1983 Black feminist anthology Home Girls.

As of 1999, Cliff was living in Santa Cruz, California,[2] with her partner, poet Adrienne Rich. The two were partners from 1976; Rich died in 2012.[3]

Works

Fiction

Prose poetry

Editor

Other

Further reading

References

  1. Agatucci, Cora (1999). "Michelle Cliff (1946- )". In Nelson, Emmanuel S. Contemporary African American Novelists: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p. 95. ISBN 0-313-30501-3. Retrieved 30 May 2010.
  2. Lisa Diedrich, "Michelle Cliff", Postcolonial Studies @ Emory University.
  3. "Adrienne Rich, 1929-", a time line, credited as "Page by Chelsea Hoffman, Fall 1999", at the Drew University Women's Studies Program website.

External links

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