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Frances-Marie Coke

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Kingston, Jamaica

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Poetry

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Frances-Marie Coke was born in Jamaica. An educator with experience at secondary and tertiary institutions in Jamaica, her qualifications include the Master of Arts in Educational Psychology (University of the West Indies, Mona) and the Master of Arts (English) Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

She has been writing since her early twenties and has written poetry, fiction, and drama for stage and radio.

Frances-Marie relocated to Florida in 2008 but maintains strong links with Jamaica and continues to write about her home. She has continued her involvement in education, working as a Writing Studio Coordinator and adjunct faculty member at tertiary institutions in Port St. Lucie.

As a member of the Caribbean American Cultural Group, Frances-Marie Coke was born in Jamaica. An educator with experience at secondary and tertiary institutions in Jamaica, her qualifications include the Master of Arts in Educational Psychology (University of the West Indies, Mona) and the Master of Arts (English) Northwestern State University of Louisiana.

She has been writing since her early twenties and has written poetry, fiction, and drama for stage and radio.

Frances-Marie relocated to Florida in 2008 but maintains strong links with Jamaica and continues to write about her home. She has continued her involvement in education, working as a Writing Studio Coordinator and adjunct faculty member at tertiary institutions in Port St. Lucie.

As a member of the Caribbean American Cultural Group, one of Port St. Lucie’s premier philanthropic organizations, she continues to contribute to the development of young people through CACG’s MLK/Scholarship Committee. CACG marks its 40th anniversary this year, and is especially proud of its annual Dr. Martin Luther King celebration and its flagship scholarship program, which has supported college-bound students to the tune of over $166,000 to date.

Frances-Marie has published four books; the first, a volume of poems, The Balm of Dusk Lilies, was published by the Jamaica Observer Literary Publications and her second volume, Intersections, was published by Peepal Tree Press (Leeds. United Kingdom). Her poems have been published in The Jamaica Observer Literary series, Bearing Witness 1, 2, and 3; Kunapipi (Journal of Postcolonial Writing), and The Caribbean Writer. She has been awarded The Daily News Prize for Poetry by The Caribbean Writer.

Her poem “Still I See” was published in Jubilation, an anthology published in 2012 in celebration of Jamaica’s fiftieth year of independence.

In 2020 in association with iUniverse, she published her teaching memoir, The Spirit of Clovelly Park: Learning and teaching at Kingston College.

Her latest work When Banana Stains Fade: A Jamaican Family Saga of Adversity and Redemption was published by Black Rose Writing in April 2024. In Coke’s words, “I felt compelled to record the island’s beauty alongside its struggles, and to celebrate the resilient, courageous “Jamaican Family,” which despite being described as irreparably broken, remains the island’s backbone.” The novel’s strong sense of time and place and its depiction of ordinary life shaped by lasting remnants of colonization will appeal to discerning readers across genders and age groups from early to advanced adulthood. Readers with Caribbean roots will appreciate strong echoes of their own stories.

Can faith and resilience overcome legacies of a dirt-poor banana field, flawed traditions, and family estrangement? Award-winning Jamaican-Canadian author Rachel Manley thinks so. “In a narrative that is hard to put down, Coke traces both a family’s story and the modern history of her island Jamaica, her message ultimately uplifting: ‘…her glorious little island prevails.’”

Copies of When Banana Stains Fade are available from the author at major booksellers, including Amazon and Barnes & Noble (in paperback and e-book formats), and at the publisher’s website – https://www.blackrosewriting.com/
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