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Jamaican Canadian novelist and short story writer

Makeda Silvera (born in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican Canadiannovelist and short story writer.

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Biography

Silvera emigrated to Canada at the age of 12 with her family, and currently lives in Toronto, Ontario. She published two volumes of short stories in the s before releasing her first novel, The Revenge of Maria, in , followed by The Heart Does Not Bend in An outlesbian,^[1] she cofounded Sister Vision Press, with Stephanie Martin in , and worked and as managing editor, edited a number of anthologies, including Piece of My Heart (), the first North American anthology of literature by lesbians of colour.^[2] Sister Vision, which published 50 titles, closed in ^[2]Piece of My Heart was described in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law as "a landmark collection of disparate lesbian voices.

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