About Opal Palmer Adisa
Opal Palmer Adisa, born November 6, 1954, is a Jamaican-born poet, novelist, performance artist, and educator. Featured in over 400 anthologies, she regularly performs her work on the international stage. Professor at the California College of the Arts, Adisa is the Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies' Mona campus (Jamaica), where she resides.Adisa has lectured and read her work throughout the United States, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Germany, England and Prague, and has performed in Italy and Bosnia. An award-winning poet and prose writer Adisa has over sixteen titles to her credit, including the novel, It Begins With Tears (1997), which Rick Ayers proclaimed as one of the most motivational works for young adults. She has been a resident artist in internationally acclaimed residencies such as El Gounda (Egypt), Sacatar Institute (Brazil) and McColl Center, (North Carolina) and Headlines Center for the Arts (California, USA). Opal Palmer Adisa’s work has been reviewed by Ishmael Reed, Al Young, and Alice Walker, who described her work as “solid, visceral, important stories written with integrity and love.”
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