Olive Senior is the Poet Laureate of Jamaica 2021-24. She is the award-winning author of twenty books of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and children's literature and other published work. Her many awards include Canada's Writers Trust Matt Cohen Award for Lifetime Achievement, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Commonwealth Writers Prize, an honorary doctorate from the University of the West Indies, and the Gold Medal of the Institute of Jamaica. Olive Senior is from Jamaica and lives in Toronto, Canada, but returns frequently to the Caribbean which remains central to her work.