About
Velma Pollard
Velma Pollard was born in Jamaica in 1937. She lectures in language education at the University of the West Indies. She is the author of two collections of short stories, Considering Woman and Karl and Other Stories, and a novel, Homestretch. Her two collections of poetry, Crown Point and Other Poems and Shame Trees Don't Grow Here . . . but poincianas bloom, were both published by Peepal Tree.