Stephanie McKenzie

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Stephanie McKenzie has traveled extensively throughout the Caribbean and lived in Jamaica and Guyana for short periods. With Carol Bailey, she edited Pamela Mordecai’s A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, 2022). McKenzie has published three collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry and is full professor in the English Programme at Grenfell Campus, Memorial University.

Suite from Martinique

November 2023
Stephanie McKenzie
Photo by Hunter W on UnsplashFamiliar, Tartane, though I’ve never been here before. Whole coast, Atlantic, stops believing in sun, or maybe that’s me, bouldered by winter. Presqu’île de la Caravell…
Creative Distancing and the Creative Process

May 6, 2021 Stephanie McKenzie
Lupines / Photo by Robert Bradbury A writer in Newfoundland gets away—relocating for three weeks to Pinchgut Lake, only fifteen minutes from her home. Treating the change as “every bit as importa…
The Half-Life of a Lapsed Ex-Fisher

January 2016
Stephanie McKenzie
Photo by Fiona Baxter/Flickr i He once sold a portion of himself to a fish packing plant, slipped in the crates of the headless and dressed when all eyes were blu…