Lady in a Boat
Merle Collinsis a professor of comparative literature and English at the University of Maryland. She is the author ofAngel,The Colour of Forgetting,Rain Darling,Because the Dawn Breaks, andRotten Pomerack. Her critical works have appeared inFrom My Guy to Sci-Fi: Genre and Women's Writing in the Postmodern WorldandSlavery and Abolition. Her literary work has appeared inPenguin Modern Poets Volume 8andThe Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories.