No Ruined Stone

From Jamaica, Shara McCallum is the author of six books published in the US & UK, including. No Ruined Stone, a speculative account of Scottish poet Robert Burns' planned migration to Jamaica to work on a slave plantation. Her previous book, Madwoman, received the 2018 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry and the 2018 Motion Book Prize from the New England Poetry Club. McCallum is a professor of English at Penn State University and was appointed the 2021-22 Penn State Laureate. She is also ...