This issue of The Caribbean Writer celebrates its 15th anniversary with a brief history by editor Erika J. Waters and congratulatory comments from contributors, university administrators, and advisory board members. The volume also contains an important interview with Errol Hill, “Caribbean Theatre Pioneer” and a special section of new poems by Opal Palmer Adisa. Novelist and poet Edwidge Danticat translated poems by Haitian writer Rodney Saint-Éloi. Poets published in volume 15 include Willi Chen, Gabriel DeLorenzo, Howard A. Fergus, Delores Gauntlett, Patricia Gill, Cecil Gray, Laurence Lieberman, Mbala, Jennifer Rahim, Thomas Reiter, and Virgil Suarez. Short fiction selections include work by Cyril Dabydeen, Maria Lemus and Marvin E. Williams. Book reviews are by noted critics Bruce King, Geoffrey Philp, Maud Pierre-Charles, Kwame Dawes, June D. Bobb, Arnold R. Highfield, Louis James, Eugene V. Mohr, Evelyn O’Callaghan, Bruce Berlind, Brenda F. Berrian, Sandra Pouchet Paquet, and J. Michael Dash, among others. An index of volumes 11-15 is also included.
Erika J. Waters, Ph.D. previously taught at the University of the Virgin Islands where she founded and edited The Caribbean Writer; she was guest editor of Volume 23 (2009). She has also edited or co-edited collections of drama, poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, and her work on women writers was funded by Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature and The National Endowment for the Humanities. Since 2002, she has taught part-time at the University of Southern Maine, and in 2005 was a Fulbright Scholar in Finland. She has recently published essays, interviews, and reviews in The Chronicle of Higher Education, World Literature Today, and The Women's Review of Books. "Kittery to Bar Harbor: Touring Coastal Maine" was published by Arcadia Publishing in 2010.
