Lorna Goodison is a major figure in world literature. She was the Poet Laureate of Jamaica (2017-2020) and in 2019 she was awarded the 2019 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. Goodison has won many other awards for her work, including the Windham-Campbell Literature Prize for Poetry from Yale University, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Gold Medal from Jamaica, the Henry Russel Award and the Shirley Verett award for Exceptional Creative Work from the University of Michigan, and one of Canada’s largest literary prizes, the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction for From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People (2007). Her Collected Poems was published in 2017 by Carcanet (UK). She is the author of twelve books of poetry, three collections of short stories, an award winning memoir and a recent collection of essays. Lorna Goodison is Professor Emerita at University of Michigan, where she was the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies.

Lorna Goodison's work featured in Stand Magazine comprises one contribution of poetry.