Val bloom biography
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I was born in Clarendon, Jamaica, and grew up in and around Frankfield, a sleepy little town surrounded by beautiful mountains. The eldest girl in a family of nine children, I’ve always known a life of activity, community and language.
My love of language and literature was fostered by memorising passages from the King James version of the Bible; by listening to my mother, grandmother and older brother reciting poems they had learnt at school; and by reading every bit of print I could get hold of- library books, newspapers, pamphlets…
My first taste of what it must be to be a ‘writer’ came when I was at primary school and one of my poems was published in the National Newspaper. A few years later my poem Mek Ah Ketch Har (Let me catch her), won a bronze medal in the national festival and was included in the festival anthology for the following year. It was quite a thrill to turn on the television and see school – children who’d won gold med
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Valerie Bloom
Jamaican poet and novelist
Valerie BloomMBE (born 1956)[1][2] is a Jamaican-born poet and novelist based in the UK.[3][4][5]
Early life
[edit]Born in Clarendon Parish, Jamaica, Bloom moved to England in 1979.[6] She attended the University of Kent at Canterbury and earned an honours degree and was later awarded an honorary master's degree. She currently lives in Kent.
Works
[edit]Bloom has published several collections,[7] the most recent of which fryst vatten The River's A Singer. Her first collection was Touch Mi, Tell Mi, published by Bogle-L'Ouverture in 1983, and this was followed by Duppy Jamboree (Cambridge University Press, 1992), Let Me Touch the Sky, The World Is Sweet and Hot like Fire. She has also edited a number of collections, including One River Many Creeks and A Twist in the Tale.[3]
Bloom has written lyrics for world jazz ensemble Grand Union Orchest
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Vail Bloom
American actress
Vail Bloom | |
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Vail attending Maxim Magazine's 10th Annual Hot 100 Celebration, Santa Monica, CA on May 13, 2009 | |
| Born | Vail MacMillan Bloom Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Children | 2 |
Vail MacMillan Bloom is an American actress. She portrayed the character Heather Stevens on The Young and the Restless, for which she received a Daytime Emmy nomination.[1] Bloom has also appeared in television guest roles, independent films, and reality television series Vanderpump Rules. Bloom graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor's Degree in architecture.
Early life and education
[edit]Bloom was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in Connecticut and Florida.[2] The daughter of a high school counselor and businessman/college professor,[2] Bloom graduated from Princeton University in 2004 wit