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Merle Collins was born on 1950 in Aruba, is a Grenadian writer (born 1950). Discover Merle Collins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 74 years old?

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1950

Merle Collins (born 29 September 1950 in Aruba) is a distinguished Grenadian poet and short story writer.

Collins' parents are from Grenada, where they returned from Aruba shortly after her birth.

Her primary education was in St George's, Grenada.

1972

She later studied at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica, earning degrees in English and Spanish in 1972.

She then taught history and Spanish in Grenada for two years and subsequently in St Lucia.

1980

In 1980, she graduated from Georgetown University, Washington, DC, with a master's degree in Latin American Studies.

She graduated from the London School of Economics with a Ph.D. in Government.

Collins was deeply involved in the Grenadian Revolution and served as a government coordinator for research on Latin America and the Caribbean.

1983

She left Grenada for England in 1983.

1984

From 1984 to 1995, Collins taught at the University of North London.

1985

Her first collection of poetry, Because the Dawn Breaks, was published by Karia Press in London in 1985, at which time Collins was a member of African Dawn, a performance group combining poetry, mime, and African music.

1987

In England, she began her first novel, Angel, which was published in 1987.

Angel follows the lives of Grenadians as they struggled for independence, and is specifically about a young woman going through the political turbulence in Grenada at the time.

1989

Her critical works include "Themes and Trends in Caribbean Writing Today" in From My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern World (ed. Helen Carr, Pandora Press, 1989), and "To be Free is Very Sweet" in Slavery and Abolition (Vol. 15, issue 3, 1994, pp. 96–103).

1990

Her collection of short stories, Rain Darling, was produced in 1990, and a second collection of poetry, Rotten Pomerack, in 1992.

The poems in this collection explore experiences of Caribbean immigrants in England.

1995

Her second novel, The Colour of Forgetting, was published in 1995.

2003

A review of her 2003 poetry collection, Lady in a Boat, states: "Ranging from poems reveling in the nation language of her island to poems that capture the beauty of its flora, Collins presents her island and people going about the business of living. They attempt to come to terms with the past and construct a future emerging out of the crucible of violence. Lady in a Boat is a poignant retelling of a period in history when, for a brief moment, Caribbean ascendancy seemed possible. Merle Collins shows how the death of this moment continues to haunt the Caribbean imagination."

2011

Her most recent collection of stories, The Ladies Are Upstairs, was published in 2011.

2018

She is currently a Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Maryland, where she was selected as 2018–2019 Distinguished Scholar Teacher.