{"id":63045,"date":"2022-02-13T04:52:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T04:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63045"},"modified":"2022-02-13T04:52:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T04:52:24","slug":"introducing-monique-roffey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63045","title":{"rendered":"Introducing… Monique Roffey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introducing… Monique Roffey<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

FMcM Associates<\/a>
\nLondon, United Kingdom
\n2020-10-15<\/p>\n

Robert Greer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Introducing\u2026<\/strong>\u2019 is our online interview series to introduce you to some of the amazing authors we\u2019re working with and their brilliant books!<\/em><\/p>\n

Monique Roffey<\/a> is an award-winning Trinidadian-born British writer of novels, essays, a memoir and literary journalism. Her novels have been translated into five languages and shortlisted for several major awards and, in 2013, Archipelago<\/em> won the OCM BOCAS Award for Caribbean Literature. With the Kisses of His Mouth<\/em> and The Tryst<\/em> are works which examine female sexuality and desire. Her essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books<\/em>, Boundless<\/em> magazine, The Independent<\/em>, Wasafiri<\/em>, and Caribbean Quarterly<\/em>. She is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/p>\n

Welcome! To start with, could you tell us a little bit about yourself…<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a bi-national writer based in East London<\/a>. My identity is mixed and fluid in that I was born in Port of Spain<\/a>, (a city I frequently return to), but I\u2019m also half English. Via my mother, I have Italian, Maltese and Middle Eastern blood. My consciousness, though, has been shaped by my knowledge and understanding of the Caribbean<\/a> region. Four of my seven books have been set in the Caribbean region. Two of my books have dealt directly with female sexuality and desire. I\u2019d call myself a magical realist as a writer and a practicing Buddhist in my everyday life; everything else is for others to decide. I teach creative writing on the MA\/MFA at Manchester Metropolitan University and for the National Writers Centre. I\u2019ve always enjoyed teaching and know, for sure, that the craft of writing can be taught to anyone with a feel for language and an active imagination…<\/p>\n

Read the entire interview here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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