Name Jennifer Rahim | Role Writer | |
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Books Approaching Sabbaths: Poems, Redemption Rain: Poems, Songster and Other Stories, Between the fence and the fo, Ground Level | ||
Jennifer Rahim (born 1963) is a Trinidadian educator and writer.
She lectures on literature at the University of the West Indies.
Rahim published her first collection of poetry Mothers Are Not the Only Linguists in 1992; it received The Writers Union of Trinidad and Tobago Writer of the Year Award. Her 2009 poetry collection Approaching Sabbaths received a Casa de las Américas Prize in 2010.
Her poems and short stories have appeared in the journal The Caribbean Writer. Her short stories were also included in the anthology Caribbean Voices I. Her poetry has appeared in a number of literary journals include The Malahat Review, The Trinidad and Tobago Review, The Graham House Review, the Atlanta Review and the Crab Orchard Review, and anthologies such as Sisters of Caliban and Creation Fire. Rahim was co-editor of the essay collection Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon (2009).