Collection: Michael Gilkes

Born in Guyana in 1935, Michael Gilkes taught at the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies in Barbados for many years and at the Sir Arthur Lewis community College in St. Lucia. He has recently been a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Women’s College. He currently lives in Bermuda. He is a distinguished Caribbean critic, dramatist and lecturer and more recently a film maker. Joanstown won the 2002 Guyana Prize for best book of poetry. He won the 2006 Guyana Prize for drama with his play The Last of the Redmen.