Photo credit: Mallory Drumm

Donna Bailey Nurse

Photo credit: Mallory Drumm

Donna Bailey Nurse

Donna Bailey Nurse is a Canadian literary critic, curator and writer. She is the author of What’s a Black Critic To Do? and the editor of Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing. Donna is a contributor to the Walrus, The Globe and Mail and the Literary Review of Canada and a columnist for CBC Radio’s The Next Chapter. She was a jury member for the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize and is currently at work on a Black history book for Harper Collins Canada, part of a two-book deal that includes a memoir of her Jamaican family. 

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What to read

Revival: An Anthology of Black Canadian Writing by Donna Bailey Nurse, 2006
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