Jane King Hippolyte
Occupation: Poet
Coaching Period: WORRRD Up 2024

Jane King Hippolyte

Jane King Hippolyte was born in Castries, Saint Lucia but had a peripatetic childhood, as her family spent time in Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados and Scotland during her early years. After St. Joseph’s Convent in St Lucia, she won a St Lucia Island Scholarship to study at the University of Edinburgh. Since 1976 she has taught in various institutions, including the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College in Castries, where she formally served as the Dean of their Division of Arts and General Studies until 2014.

King has published three collections of poems: Into the Centre (1993), Fellow Traveller (1994) and Performance Anxiety (2013). She won the Minvielle & Chastenet Arts Award in 1990 in 1990 and was the first recipient of the James Rodway Memorial Prize in 1994. Her poems have appeared in various regional and international journals and anthologies. She has twice been the chief judge of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. She is a co-founder of St Lucia’s Lighthouse Theatre Company and was active as an actor and theatre director.

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