Yashika Graham

Yashika Graham

Yashika Graham is a Jamaican writer, visual artist and broadcaster. She is an Honorary Fellow in the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program (2023) and the 2019 recipient of the Mervyn Morris Prize for poetry from the University of the West Indies (UWI) where she read for a BA in Literatures in English.

Yashika is an executive member of the Poetry Society of Jamaica and has won numerous prizes, awards, and fellowships. Her poems “Time Travel” (2017) and “Directions From the Border” (2016) have been released as short films. Graham received a 2018 Centrum Writers’ Residency and 2019 Urban Wilderness Project Research and Teaching Fellowship. She has been widely anthologized in journals and magazines including The Caribbean Writer, Susumba’s Bookbag, POUi, Spillway magazine, PREE Lit,Moko magazine, Jamaica Journal, Magma 76 and Cordite Review 81: New Caribbean Writing.

Graham has read her poetry, given lectures, and taught cross-genre workshops internationally including for the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference in Washington, USA. In 2024 she released the limited edition chapbook My Mother is a Bushwoman. Some of Us Can Go Back Home is her debut poetry collection.

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