D.S. Marriott was born in Nottingham 1963 of Jamaican parentage and was educated at the University of Sussex. He has taught there and now teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He has written many articles on poetics and is the author of On Black Men , published in 2000 by the University Presses of Edinburgh and Columbia, New York, and Haunted Life , published in 2007 by the University Press of Rutgers, New Jersey. His first full-length collection of poems was Incognegro (Salt Publishing, 2005).