White Rum and Coconut Water

Dr Natalie Corthésy is a Jamaican poet and the 2020 Winner of The Caribbean Writer's Marvin E. Williams Literary Prize for a new or emerging writer for "The Helper Experiment" published in The Caribbean Writer Volume 34 under the theme, Dignity, Power and Place in the Caribbean Space. Her short story "Paradise Plum" made the 2023 Longlist of the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival Elizabeth Nunez Award for Writers in the Caribbean. Natalie's work has been published in the Daily Gleaner, The Carimac Times, We Are Goodenough Magazine, Interviewing the Caribbean and The Caribbean Writer. She is a Calabash International Literary Festival Poetry Workshop fellow and a contributor to the anthology: So Much Things to Say: 100 Poets from the First Ten Years of the Calabash International Literary Festival, edited by Kwame Dawes and Colin Channer, Akashic Books, (2010). Natalie lives and works in Kingston as a Senior Lecturer at The University of the West Indies, Mona.

White Rum and Coconut Water explores Jamaican iconography, from ancestral musings to a millennial gaze on love, loss and black identity.