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For Educators
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Queen of the Ebony Isles
Colleen J McElroy
Wesleyan Poetry Series
Wesleyan University Press
1984 • 101 pp. 16 illus. 5 x 8 1/2"
Poetry / African-American Studies
$14.95 Paperback, 978-0-8195-6101-5
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An award-winning poetry collection depicting the world of the African American woman.
Endorsements:
“McElroy is a true poet. The ebony isles she inhabits and shares with us are rich, and painful, and terribly beautiful”—Maya Angelou
“Tight, tough, lovely.”—Marge Piercy
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Awards/Recognition:
- Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award
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COLLEEN MCELROY has been a speech therapist, a talk show moderator, a poet and short story writer, and a professor of writing, literature, and women’s studies. A graduate of the University of Washington (Ph.D. 1973), McElroy has received an N.E.A. fellowship and a Pushcart: Best of Small Presses award. Her previous books are: lie and Say You Love ME, Winters Without Snow, Music From Home: Selected Poems, and The Mules Done Long Since Gone. She is now professor of English at the University of Washington and lives in Seattle.
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