Opal Palmer Adisa writes in all genres. A culture and gender activist, she has lived in many places and has traveled extensively. Some of her publications are: Pretty Like Jamaica, children’s; The Storyteller’s Return, story-poems; Portia Dreams, 2021, the authorized children’s biography of Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister. Adisa is also the editor-in-chief of two journals, Interviewing the Caribbean, literature/visual; and Caribbean Conjunctures, The Caribbean Studies Association journal, scholarly essays and book reviews. www.opalpalmeradisa.com

I am seventy years old. Seventy. The number itself feels solid, a hard-back bounded volume,

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