Shara McCallum
is a Jamaican-American writer and the author of five books of poetry, most recently Madwoman (2017). Her work has been widely published in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Europe; has been translated into several languages; and has received such recognition as a Witter Bynner Fellowship from the Library of Congress and an NEA Poetry Fellowship. She lives in Pennsylvania and teaches creative writing and literature at Penn State University.