What, Why, How: Shara McCallum

What:

I principally write poems, but I also write personal essays from time to time. In all cases, I write about things that elude me and which seem paradoxical in nature. I tend to be drawn toward autobiography as a beginning point (rarely an end), the self as something worth interrogating, and the meeting point between the individual life and history. As a woman, a woman of colour, a mixed-race black person, a Jamaican-American, an emigrant/immigrant, I find I’m often attracted to writin...