Ronie McGrath

A renaissance man of his time, Ronnie McGrath is a founder
member of the now defunct musical group The London Afro Blok,
who performed for the Queen and opened the 1994
Commonwealth Games in British Columbia, Canada. Author of the
word of mouth best-selling novel, On The Verge Of Losing iT,
ankhademia press 2005, he is also published in IC3, The Penguin
Book Of New Black Writing In Britain.
A graduate of Manchester University’s MA in Novel Writing, he is
working on his second novel, Satchmo’s Lips. Ronnie is near
completing a collection of his poetry for the Tall-Light-House Press,
due to be published in 2007. As well as promoting his writing on
BBC London’s Word for Word literary programme, Ronnie has
appeared on various radio shows. A writer in residence at The
University Of The Arts, Ronnie has just published a special feature
on the African American poet Audre Lorde, for the international,
leading Black literary journal SABLE. He has also published his
poetry in Calabash journal for Black and Asian writers, and
contributed to the BBC 4 television documentary West Indian Front
Room - March 2007.