Pamela Mordecai

Pamela Mordecai was born in Kingston, Jamaica. She worked in the Faculty of Education at the University of the West Indies, where she developed language-arts textbooks. She has worked extensively in media communications, including being a freelance television presenter for 17 years. She immigrated to Canada in 1993 with her family.

Mordecai is especially interested in Caribbean women writers.

List of Published Works

• Certifiable. Fredericton, NB: Goose Lane, 2001.
• Rohan Goes to Big School. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• The Costume Parade. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2000.
• De Man: a performance poem. Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1995.
• Journey Poem. Kingston, Jamaica: Sandberry Press, 1988.
• Storypoems: A First Collection. Aylesbury, Bucks: Ginn & Co, 1987.

Awards

• Vic Reid Award in 1993 (Jamaica’s top literary prize for children’s literature) for Ezra’s Goldfish and Other Story poems.