Raised in Jamaica, writer Marcia Douglas reflects the Jamaican experience through a lyrical and seamless hybrid of poetry and prose. She is the author of the novels, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread, Madam Fate, and Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells, as well as a poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom. Douglas’s work has appeared in journals and anthologies internationally. Her awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and a UK Poetry Book Society Recommendation. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread was longlisted for the 2016 Republic of Consciousness Prize and the 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. She performs a one-woman show, Natural Herstory, and is on faculty at the University of Colorado, Boulder, where she teaches creative writing and Caribbean literature.