Lorna Goodison CD (born 1 Aug 1947) is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afro-american and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017. In 2019 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Poet and literary scholar Edward Baugh says: "one of Goodison’s achievements is that her poetry inscribes the Jamaican sensibility and culture on the text of the world". Also a painter, Goodison has illustrated her own book covers, as well as exhibiting her artwork in the Caribbean, the US and Europe Less