Fighting the Fear, Writing the Real: An Interview with Maggie Harris
By Dr. Leanne Haynes | ARC Magazine
Maggie Harris is a Guyanese-born poet and author who migrated to the UK in 1971. She holds a BA Honours Degree in African/Caribbean studies and an MA in Post-Colonial Studies from Kent University as a mature student. She won the Guyana Prize for Literature in 2000 for her poetry collection, Limbolands. Other collections include From Berbice to Broadstairs, After a Visit to a Botanical Garden and Sixty Years of Loving (Cane Arrow Press). She also edited an anthology, Sixty Poems for Haiti with Cane Arrow Press. Her recorded poems for children are Anansi Meets Miss Muffet. She has also written a number of short stories, including the collection Canterbury Tales on Cockcrow Morning, (Cultured Llama Press), and her own memoir,Kiskadee Girl. A new short story collection, In Margate by Lunchtime, will be published by Cultured Llama Press this summer. Maggie has worked with refugees and collaborated with other artists and runs poetry workshops in schools for WEDG.
Read the full interview at ARC Magazine.
