Makeda silvera biography of george michael
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Makeda silvera biography of george michael
Makeda Silvera
Jamaican Canadian novelist and short story writer
Makeda Silvera (born 1955 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Canadiannovelist and short story writer.
Biography
Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her family, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario.
She published two volumes of short stories in the 1990s before releasing her first novel, The Revenge of Maria, in 1998, followed by The Heart Does Not Bend in 2002. An outlesbian,[1] she cofounded Sister Vision Press, with Stephanie Martin in 1985, and worked and as managing editor, edited a number of anthologies, including Piece of My Heart (1991), the first North American anthology of literature by lesbians of colour.[2] Sister Vision, which published 50 titles, closed in 2001.[2]Piece of My Heart was described in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law as "a landmark collection of disparate lesbian voices.
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