This web site contains descriptions and excerpts of M. NourbeSe Philip's work in all genres, an extensive bibliography and a brief biography which outlines her writing career and the many awards and citations she has received. In addition there are excerpts from a number of reviews and a list of articles and films about her work. Ms. Philip's work in all genres is on course curricula  and is the subject of lectures and essays in  universities and high schools throughout North America and the Caribbean, as well as in England, France, Germany and Australia. The site also contains  links to several academic articles published on the internet , and includes the Microsoft Encarta Africana entry under her name.

Highlights of 2005 included a Rockefeller Foundation residency in Bellagio, Italy.

2006 highlights include:

"For the many like me, black and female, it is imperative that our writing begin to recreate our histories and our myths, as well as integrate that most painful of experiences-- loss of our history and our word. The reacquisition of power to create in one's own i-mage and to create one's own i-mage is vital to this process; it reaffirms for us that which we have always known, even in those most darkest of times which are still with us, when everything conspired to prove otherwise--that we belong most certainly to the race of humans." ..The Absence of Writing or How I Almost Became a Spy ©

Letter to Kamau Brathwaite, as part of the campaign to Save the Cow Pasture 

“Book of the Month” -"Alana's Trinbago Pages" and the "Bibliography of Creative Writing in Trinidad and Tobago"   

Essay from Comparative Literature and Culture Web Journal - An academic essay entitled: "Comparative Cultural Studies and Ethnic Minority Writing Today: The Hybridities of Marlene Nourbese Philip and Emine Sevgi Özdamar." by Sabine Milz

 "Song Lines of Memory in a Globalized World", Keynote Address by M. NourbeSe Philip at "Insurgent Cross-Cultural Conversations in the Expressive Arts: Contesting Notions of Transnationalism and Citizenship", a Ray Smith Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, Mar.2006

"A Poet of Place: An Interview with M. NourbeSe Philip" by Mahlis, Kristen 
Callaloo - Volume 27, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 682-697, The Johns Hopkins University Press

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