Marcia Douglas writes across fiction, poetry, and essay forms. She is the author of the novels The Jamaica Kollection of the Shante Dream Arkive, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread (both New Directions), Notes from a Writer’s Book of Cures and Spells (Peepal Tree), and Madam Fate (Soho) as well as a poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Peepal Tree).