Pamela Mordecai is a
Jamaican-born poet, children’s author, and critically acclaimed novelist who
now calls Kitchener home. Her novel Red
Jacket was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award in 2015.
In 2014, her Caribbean Counting Poem
was chosen by The Guardian (UK) as
one of the Top 10 poems to remember and recite. She has written numerous
textbooks, children’s books, poetry collections, and short stories.