Rosamond S. King

Rosamond S. King

Brooklyn College, City University of New York

Rosamond S. King (she/her) is a critical and creative writer whose scholarly work focuses on sexuality, performance, and literature in the Caribbean and Africa.

Her book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination received the Caribbean Studies Association best book award, and her research has been supported by the Fulbright and Ford, Mellon, and Woodrow Wilson Foundations. Her poetry collection is Rock|Salt|Stone, and she has performed around the world.

King is the author of poetry collections All the Rage and the Lambda Award-winning Rock | Salt | Stone. Her writing has also been published in more than three dozen journals, blogs, and anthologies, including The Feminist Wire, Hyperallergic, The Caribbean Writer, and The New Daughters of Africa.