M. Nourbese Philip

M. NOURBESE PHILIP'S books include her poetry collection She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (Ragweed, 1988) — winner of the Casa de las Americas prize — and her novel Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence (Mercury, 1991). Her most recent essay collection is Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (Mercury, 1997). In 2003, she was Writer in Residence at McMaster University.