Ann-Margaret Lim was born and lives in Jamaica. Her second poetry collection, Kingston Buttercup (Peepal Tree Press: 2016) made the poetry shortlist of the Bocas Prize, and her first, The Festival of the Wild Orchid (Peepal Tree, 2012), nominated for the UK Guardian First Book Prize, received Honorary Mention in the 2013 Bocas Prize. She is a Calabash Fellow, a national book awardee (highly recommended), whose poems have appeared in the Orion Magazine, the Academy of American Poets Poem a Day Series, and other literary journals and magazines worldwide.