Althea
ROMEO-MARK
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Born in Antigua in 1948, Althea Romeo-Mark
grew up in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. She attended St. Peter
and Paul Catholic School and graduated in 1967. She earned a B.A.
in Education and English from the University of the Virgin Islands
in 1971, and an M.A. in Modern American Literature from Kent State
University (Ohio) in 1974. In 1993 she earned a Certificate in Teaching
English as a Foreign Language (CETEFIA) in Bern, Switzerland.
Althea Romeo-Mark has taught at Addelita Cancryn Junior High School,
(St. Thomas, Virgin Islands); Kent State University; the University
of Liberia; Fulham Cross Secondary School and is presently teaching
English as a Foreign Language in Switzerland.
Recent publications include Niederngasse:
Journal of Winning Poetry, The Caribbean Writer and Liberia:
Leben Wo Der Pfeffer Wächst.
She has published four collections of poems: Beyond
Dream: The Ritual Dancer (1989), Two
Faces; Two Phases (1984), Palaver:
West Indian Poems (1978) and The
Silent Dancing Spirit (1974).
Poems have also been published in the following journals: Revista
Review interamericana, Welcome to my Pad, The Harvard Advocate,
Sun Jewels: Anthology of Virgin lslands Poetry, New Kent Quarterly,
among others.
Althea Romeo-Mark believes her desire to write was inspired by her
father, Gilbert Romeo, who is a fantastic story teller and Dr. David
Gershator, her former professor of literature, at the University
of the Virgin Islands.
Awards and prizes include a scholarship to the Breadloaf Writers'
Conference, an award from the Virgin Islands Council on the Arts
and a poetry award from Cuyahoga Writers Workshop. She recently
won second prize in the annual Stauffacher's English Short Story
Contest, (Switzerland) 1995. She is presently working on a collection
of short stories.
She is married to Dr. Emmanuel Mark of Grenada and is the mother
of two daughters and a son.
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