Liberian Literary Magazine
Promoting Liberian literature, Arts and Culture
CATANA TULLY
Authors of the
Month Profiles
PATRICIA JABBEH WESLEY
Catana Tully grew up
trilingual in Guatemala where she
attended elementary and middle
school. In tenth grade she entered
a boarding school in Jamaica, WI
and received her Advanced Level
Higher Schools Certificate from
Cambridge University, England.
Expecting
to
become
an
international interpreter, her
studies continued at the Sprachen
und Dolmetscher Institut in Munich,
Germany.
However,
after
answering a call to work in a play,
she discovered her affinity for the
dramatic arts. As the actress and
fashion model Catana Cayetano she
appeared in Film and Television
work in Germany, Austria, and
Italy. She met and married the
American actor Frederick V. Tully
and ultimately moved to the
United States. They have a son,
Patrick. In Upstate New York, she
completed the BA in Cultural
Studies at SUNY, Empire State
College; obtained a MA in Latin
American
and
Caribbean
Literature, and a DA (Doctor of
Arts) in Humanistic Studies, from
SUNY, Albany. In 2003, personal
reasons required she retire from
her tenured position as Associate
Professor at SUNY Empire State
College, only to return for part
time work in 2005 at ESC’s Center
for International Programs. There
she served as Mentor and instructor
in the Lebanon Program and as
Interim Program Director for the
Dominican Republic. Wishing to
dedicate herself completely to
publi shing her book, she retired
entirely in 2011. Split at the Root:
A Memoir of Love and Lost Identity
was published in the fall of 2012.
Her German version of the book is
ready for publication later in 2016.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Born in Antigua, West Indies,
Althea
Romeo-Mark
is
an
educator and internationally
published writer who grew up in
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands.
She has lived and taught in St.
Thomas, Virgin Islands, USA,
Liberia (1976-1990), London,
England (1990-1991), and in
Switzerland since 1991.
She taught at the University of
Liberia (1976-1990). She is a
founding member of the Liberian
Association of Writers (LAW) and
is the poetry editor for
Seabreeze: Journal of Liberian
Contemporary Literature. She
was awarded the Marguerite
Cobb McKay Prize by The
Caribbean Writer in June, 2009
for short story “Bitterleaf, (set in
Liberia).” If Only the Dust
Would Settle is her last poetry
collection.
She has been guest poets at the
International Poetry Festival of
Medellin, Colombia(2010), the
Kistrech International Poetry
Festival, Kissi, Kenya (2014) and
The Antigua and Barbuda Review
of Books 10th Anniversary
Conference,
Antigua
and
Barbuda(2015)
She has been published in the
US Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
the USA, Germany, Norway, the
UK, India, Colombia, Kenya,
Liberia and Switzerland.
More publishing history can be
found
at
her
blogsite:www.aromaproductions
.blogspot.com
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