1950
Grace Nichols was born in 1950 in Georgetown, Guyana. She grew up in a small coastal village before her family moved to the city.
Nichols earned a Diploma in Communications from the University of Guyana and worked as a teacher and journalist before emigrating to the United Kingdom in 1977. Her debut poetry collection, I is a Long-Memoried Woman, was published in 1983 and won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. She has since published multiple poetry collections, novels, and children's books. Her work explores themes of Caribbean identity, womanhood, migration, and the African diaspora.
Nichols received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2021. She is married to the poet John Agard, and together they are one of the most celebrated literary partnerships in Caribbean-British writing.
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