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Putting History in Its Place: An Interview with Bernardine Evaristo<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Contemporary Women’s Writing<\/a>
\nVolume 9 Issue 3 November 2015<\/a>
\npages 433-448
\nDOI: 10.1093\/cww\/vpv003<\/a><\/p>\n

Jennifer Gustar<\/a><\/strong>, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies
\nUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n

Bernardine Evaristo<\/a> was born in Woolwich, London<\/a>, to an English mother of Irish descent and a Nigerian father, who had immigrated to the UK<\/a>. She has been actively publishing since the release of her first book of poetry, Island of Abraham<\/em> (1994). She has published six other works since: the semiautobiographical<\/a> Lara<\/a><\/em> (1997); The Emperor\u2019s Babe<\/em> (2001), a novel in verse, based in Roman Londinium<\/a>; Soul Tourists<\/em> (2005), a hybrid of poetry and prose that explores the spectral black history of Europe; Blonde Roots<\/em> (2008), a satirical novel that inverts the historical realities of the transatlantic slave trade; Hello Mum<\/em> (2010), an epistolary<\/a> novella<\/a> that explores a fourteen-year-old boy\u2019s sense of disenfranchisement and the consequent lure of gang culture; and, most recently, Mr. Loverman<\/em> (2013), the story of a closeted homosexual Trinidadian-British Londoner, who must confront the damage perpetuated by his own silences. Evaristo has served as coeditor of two literary anthologies: NW15<\/em> (Granta\/British Council, 2007) and Ten New Poets<\/em> (Bloodaxe, 2010). As editor, she has been instrumental in both mentoring and promoting the visibility of black British writers. In 2010, she guest-edited an issue of Wasafiri<\/em>, entitled Black Britain: Beyond Definition<\/em>, that celebrates contemporary black writing in the UK. Her 2012 guest-edited volume of the UK\u2019s leading poetry journal Poetry Review<\/em>, entitled Offending Frequencies<\/em>, features more poets of color than any previous single issue. In September of 2014, she investigated the publishing industry\u2019s attitude toward women of color as guest editor of Mslexia<\/em>. She currently works as a Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel University, where, in 2011, she instituted the Brunel University African Poetry Prize. Two of her works have been adapted for radio: The Emperor\u2019s Babe<\/em> for BBC 1 (2012) and Hello Mum<\/em> for BBC 4 (2012). She was elected Fellow of the…<\/p>\n

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