Grace Nichols

Writer, Poet
Principal country concerned :

Guyana

Grace Nichols is a Guyanese poet. Her works include I is a Long-Memoried Woman, The Fat Black Woman's Poems, A Dangerous Knowing: Four Black Women Poets, Whole of a Morning Sky, Over the River, Hurricane Hits England, Lazy Thoughts of a Lazy Woman, Startling the Flying Fish, Picasso, I Want My Face Back, I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems, Trust You, Wriggly; Baby Fish and Other Stories from Village to Rain Forest, A Wilful Daughter, Leslyn in London, The Discovery, Come On Into My Tropical Garden: Poems for Children, Poetry Jump Up: An Anthology of Black Poetry, and For Forest.

Nichols was born in Georgetown in Guyana. She completed a Diploma in Communications from the University of Guyana. In the past, she worked as a teacher, journalist and held positions in government information services. She currently lives in England with her partner and poet, John Agard.