Olive Senior

Olive Senior is the author of 18 books of poetry, fiction, non-fiction and children's literature. She is a winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the OCM Bocas Prizefor Caribbean Literature, and her collectionOver the Roofs of the Worldwasshortlistedfor the 2005Governor General's Literary Award for poetry. In 2019 Senior delivered the prestigiousMargaret Laurence Lecture. Her latest book is the children's picture bookBoonoonoonousHair,which wasillustrated by Laura James.

A Jamaican by birth, Seniornow lives in Toronto but returns frequently to the Caribbean which remains central to her work.

• The death of George Floyd inspired this powerful poem by Olive Senior
• Watch Olive Senior deliver Margaret Laurence Lecture, 'A Writer's Life'
• Olive Senior wins 2016 OCM Bocas fiction category for The Pain Tree
• Lynn Crosbie, Olive Senior and Billy-Ray Belcourt to judge 2019 CBC Poetry Prize
• The best Canadian picture books of 2019