Patricia Glinton-Meicholas

Patricia Glinton-Meicholas received her Bachelor of Art degree (Hons) in French and Spanish from the University of the West Indies (Mona) and a M Sc. ed. from the University of Miami.

She was the first winner of the Bahamas Cacique Award for Writing and recipient of a Silver Jubilee of Independence Medal for Literature. For her latest poetry collection, Chasing Light, Glinton-Meicholas was a finalist in the 2012 International Proverse Prize Competition sponsored by Proverse Publishing, Hong Kong, which published the book. By 2014 she had written 18 books and numerous essays on Bahamian history, art and culture.

Glinton-Meicholas has a story included in the Penguin anthology Under the Storyteller's Spell. Her poetry has appeared in such publications as Across Borders (Lebanon College, N.H. 2003); Poui, the literary journal of the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill; Yinna, the journal of the Bahamas Association for Cultural Studies and in the Anthology of Caribbean Poetry, published by the Government of Guyana in support of Carifesta X.

Glinton-Meicholas' monograph on Bahamian folktales was published in the Encuentros series of the IDB Cultural Centre, Washington, DC (Talkin' Ol' Story: A Brief Survey of the Oral Tradition of The Bahamas, No. 38, July 2000). Her essays on Bahamian art appear in the 34-volume Grove Dictionary of Art (formerly Macmillan Dictionary of Art and she is contributing several biographies to Oxford University Press' Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography.