Heather royes poet biography assignment

Heather Hope Royes (born )^[1] is a Jamaican media consultant, HIV/AIDS consultant and poet.

Education and career

Royes received a bachelor of arts from the University of Oregon.

She attended the University of the West Indies, Mona and earned a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in ^[2] She has worked in the Jamaican government, including as cultural attaché in Mexico City in the s.^[3][4]

She studies HIV/AIDS and, in , published a pioneering study on "Jamaican Men and Same-Sex Activities."^[5] She has authored several papers and reports on the subject, including a UNESCO report on Jamaica's experience with HIV/AIDS.^[6]

Poetry

Royes has been writing poetry since the s.^[7] Her poetry has been included in anthologies such as Heinemann's Jamaica Woman () and Anthology of African and Caribbean Writing in English (), the Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse in