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Yesha Townsend

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Biography

Yesha Townsend is a Bermudian writer and English lecturer at the Bermuda College. Her work has been published or featured in Bermudian, Caribbean and British spaces, notably, The Bermudian Magazine, The Bermuda Anthology of Memoir & Creative Non-Fiction, Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing, The Wolverhampton Literary Festival 2021, MOKO: caribbean arts and letters, and The Bermuda Biennial 2022. She’s in a band called DONNA. And a duo called ICARUS. Her writing explores grief, identity and love through the lens of the Black Bermudian and Caribbean experience, she writes of home, of hurricanes, of Bermudian history, mythology, and folklore.

Years Attended

2025 Adult’s Festival Participant

Yesha Townsend

Author
Bermuda
Events Featuring Yesha Townsend
2025
Take Two: Andre Bagoo and Linzey Corridon
Festival Programme Event
Poetry, Take Two Event
Event Date: May 3, 2025 @ 1:00 pm
AV Room
2025
Stand & Deliver Sunday – Open Mic Event
Festival Programme Event
Fiction, Performance, Poetry Event
Event Date: May 4, 2025 @ 12:00 pm
Abercromby Street Arcade