Bunny and Shark (11 page)

acknowledgements

For informing my research, I wish to thank Amy E. Potter for her graduate dissertation entitled
Transnational Spaces and Communal Land Tenure in a Caribbean Place: “Barbuda Is for Barbudans”
(Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011).

The excerpt on p. 121 is from Joseph Conrad's
Heart of Darkness
.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts, le conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec, and to Passa Porta: la maison internationale de littérature a Bruxelles for the support and production of this book.

Thank you to my publishers Jay and Hazel Millar for their respect and enthusiasm, and to my editor Malcolm Sutton for his great investment in me as a writer.

For other close-reading, editorial and other killer advice, I am grateful to Kathleen Piercy, Kyla Brucciani, Devlin Kuyek, Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay, Kristian Bakkegaard Andersen, Carmen Joy King, and most of all, to Caia Hagel.

Sending adoration from afar to my aunt Darlene who hosted me through the years in her home in the Caribbean, and who, two years ago, reminded me that if you are open to it, the place you travel to has a story of its own to tell.

I wish to thank the darkness of time when I wrote this book to “Thirteen Angels Standing Guard 'Round the Side of Your Bed” blaring late into the night in my kitchen in Brussels. And to Manuel, for holding my hand many months later, through a lighter time, in order to finalize the chapters.

And to my family: Kathleen, Jay and Liz (and their boys), Una and Fanon, my angels, I thank you for your help to me in the final stages of writing this, and I dedicate this book to you.

About the Author

Alisha Piercy is a Montreal-based writer, artist, and painting conservator. Studies in literature,art conservation and print media influence her creative practice, which ranges from drawing installations to sculptural bookworks to the writing of novellas. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries in eastern Canada, with international projects in Iceland and Mexico. Her chapbook “You have hair like flags~” won the bpNichol Chapbook Poetry Award in 2010. Find Piercy at
www.alishapiercy.com
or connect with her
on Facebook
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