Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Michelle Cliff has lectured at many universities and was Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of If I Could Write This in Fire (Minnesota, 2008) and of the acclaimed novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. She lives in California.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Michelle Cliff has lectured at many universities and was Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of If I Could Write This in Fire (Minnesota, 2008) and of the acclaimed novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. She lives in California.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, Michelle Cliff has lectured at many universities and was Allan K. Smith Professor of English Language and Literature at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. She is the author of If I Could Write This in Fire (Minnesota, 2008) and of the acclaimed novels Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, and Free Enterprise. She lives in California.