Christine Craig
Born (1943-06-24) June 24, 1943
Kingston, Jamaica
Alma materUniversity of the West Indies
OccupationWriter

Christine Craig (born 24 June 1943) is a Jamaican writer living in Florida, United States.[1][2] She has published collections of poetry and short stories, as well as children's fiction and several non-fiction works.[3]

Biography

Christine Craig was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and grew up in rural Saint Elizabeth. She received a BA from the University of the West Indies.[1] In 1970, she published her first work, Emanuel and His Parrot, a children's book.[4] She began publishing poetry in the late 1970s and published her first poetry collection, Quadrille for Tigers, in 1984. In 1993, Craig published a collection of short stories entitled Mint Tea.[1] She also researched, wrote and presented a series of stories on Jamaican history for children's television.[4]

Craig tutored English literature at the University of the West Indies and was adjunct professor at Barry University in Florida.[2] In 1989, she took part in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. She was editor in Miami for The Jamaica Gleaner from 1990 to 1998.[2] She later moved to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.[3]

Selected works

  • Emanuel and His Parrot (Oxford University Press, 1970)
  • Emanuel Goes to Market, children's fiction (Oxford University Press, 1971)
  • Sunday in the lane
  • Quadrille for Tigers, poetry (Mina Press, 1984)
  • The Bird Gang, children's fiction (Heinemann Caribbean, 1990)
  • Guyana at the Crossroads, non-fiction (University of Miami, 1992), with Denis Watson
  • Jamaica's National Report to the World Conference on the Environment (1992), co-editor
  • Mint Tea and Other Stories (Heinemann, 1993, ISBN 978-0435989323)
  • Poems All Things Bright & Quadrille for Tigers (Peepal Tree Press, 2010, ISBN 978-1845231729)

References

  1. 1 2 3 Elaine Salvory (Fido) (2004). "Craig, Christine (1943– )". In Benson, Eugene; Conolly, L. W. (eds.). Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. pp. 276–77. ISBN 1134468482.
  2. 1 2 3 "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. 2013. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Christine Craig". Peepal Tree Press.
  4. 1 2 Biographical note, Craig, Christine (1993). Mint Tea and Other Stories. ISBN 9780435989323.
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