Mark McWatt

Mark McWatt is the recently retired Professor of West Indian literature at UWI, Cave Hill.

He was born in Guyana in 1947. He took his first degree at the University of Toronto, then went to Leeds University to complete a Ph.D.

He has published two collections of poetry, Interiors (1989) and The Language of Eldorado (1994) which won the Guyana Prize. He has published widely in journals on aspects of Caribbean literature and is joint editor of the Oxford Book of Caribbean Verse(2005).