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Coursework Assignment 1: Author Profile (Shani Mootoo) Shani MootooShani Mootoo was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 and raised in Trinidad. At age nineteen she migrated  

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Name: Keisha-Marina Bostic ID: 01750604 Course Code: E25M-Caribbean Women Writers Lecturer: Ms. Merle Hodge Coursework Assignment 1: Author Profile (Shani Mootoo) SHANI MOOTOO Shani Mootoo was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1958 and raised in Trinidad. At age nineteen she migrated to Canada where she earned a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 1980. Thereafter, she began her career as a painter and video producer. She has had numerous exhibitions throughout the U.S and Canada, and her videos have been shown at a number of film festivals. Additionally, her paintings and photo-based works have been exhibited internationally at such places like the New York Museum of Modern Art. Shani said that she gravitated toward visual arts most of her life. A victim of child abuse, she was told to never speak of it, so she found it safer to express herself using pictures instead of words and described her art as "trying...

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