Our Keynote Speaker - Olive Senior

Olive Senior is the prizewinning author of 18 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children’s literature. Her work is taught internationally and has been widely translated. She is a winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, among others, and has been shortlisted for Canada’s Governor-General’s award for poetry. Her many honours include the Gold Musgrave Medal of the Institute of Jamaica, an Honorary Doctorate (D.Litt.) from the University of the West Indies and Canada’s Writers Trust Matt Cohen Award for Lifetime Achievement. Olive Senior lives in Toronto but returns frequently to Jamaica which remains central to her literary work. A book of her Pandemic Poems which she has been sharing on social media will be published later this year.