Pamela Mordecai
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Pamela Mordecai (b. 1942, Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican writer, teacher, and scholar. Born in Jamaica, she attended high school there and college in the USA, where she did a first degree in English. A trained language-arts teacher with a PhD in English, she has taught at secondary and tertiary levels, trained teachers, and worked in media and in publishing.
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Mordecai has written articles on Caribbean literature, education and publishing, and has collaborated on, or herself written, over thirty books, including textbooks, children’s books, and, with her husband, Martin, a reference work, Culture and Customs of Jamaica (2001). Her four books of poetry for adults are Journey Poem (1987), de Man (1995), Certifiable (2001), and The True Blue of Islands (2005). She has edited several anthologies, including Jamaica Woman (1980, with Mervyn Morris), From Our Yard: Jamaican Poetry since Independence (1987), Her True-True Name (1989, with Elizabeth Wilson) and most recently, Calling Cards: New Poetry from Caribbean/Canadian Women (2005).
Her poems and stories for children are widely anthologized and have been used in textbooks in the UK, Canada, the USA, West Africa and the Caribbean. Her short stories have been published in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the USA and Canada. She has also written plays, most recently El Numero Uno or The Jonkanoo Pig from Lopinot, commissioned by the Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in Toronto.
Pam Mordecai has lived in Toronto, Canada, since 1994, but the Caribbean experience continues to be the focus of her writing.
