Thursday, April 19, 2012
Diana
McCaulay, is an award winning Jamaican writer,
newspaper columnist and environmental activist. Her short story,
The Mango, the Ackee and the Breadfruit won the Lifestyle
Short Story competition in 1991. She has written children’s books
and her short fiction has been published by The Caribbean Writer.
In 2008, her story The Blue Tarpaulin won The David Hough
Literary Prize, awarded by the Editorial Board of The Caribbean
Writer. Her debut novel, Dog-Heart, won various
awards.
Yolaine M. St. Fort, a writer of Haitian
descent holds a M.A. in Creative Writing from Long Island
University. She is the recipient of a recent fellowship from
the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and has done workshops with
Cave Canem in New York. Her stark and haunting poetry was
prominently featured in General Authority: Haiti Earthquake
1-12-2010. Yolaine is a founding director of the Lathan
Mission Foundation’s Angels of Christ Orphanage and Institution
Primaire Mixte de la C.E.P.H. de Lathan, which serves approximately
one-hundred and seventy-five children in Port au Prince, Haiti
St. John’s University, Queens Campus
Belson/Finley Hall, Law School Atrium, 4th Floor
8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439
(718) 990-1869
Readings and Conversation, Book Signing
Thursday, April 19, 2012 – 1:45 p.m.
During Common Hour – Lunch Included
Click
here to RSVP or call (718) 990-1869.
Sponsored by:President’s Multicultural
Advisory Committee, The Office of the Provost, Division of Student
Affairs;
Committee for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS);
University Libraries; Academic Affairs Committee (SGI); Haraya, the
Pan-African Students Coalition; Caribbean Students
Association
In partnership with:Caribbean Cultural
Theatre