The Sea Needs No Ornament/ El mar no necesita ornamento: A bilingual anthology of contemporary poetry by women writers of the English and Spanish-speaking Caribbean

About

Loretta Collins Klobah is the author of two poetry collections The Twelve Foot Neon Woman (Peepal Tree Press 2011) which received the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean poetry and was short-listed for the Forwards Felix Dennis Prize and most recently Ricantations. She has received the Pushcart Prize the Earl Lyons Award from The Academy of American Poets and the Pam Wallace Award for an Aspiring Woman Writer. Her poems have been widely published in journals and anthologies. She lives in San Juan Puerto Rico where she is a professor of Caribbean literature and creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico. Maria Grau Perejoan holds a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies with an emphasis on Caribbean Literature and Literary Translation from the University of Barcelona and an MPhil in Cultural Studies from the University of the West Indies Trinidad and Tobago. She was visiting lecturer at the UWI St Augustine Campus for three academic years she then moved on to lecture courses in Translation and Caribbean Literature at the University of Barcelona and since 2020 she is a Lecturer at the Department of Spanish Modern and Classical Languages at the University of the Balearic Islands.