Jamaican born Donna Aza Weir-Soley recieved her Ph.D. in English from the University of California, Berkeley.
She is currently an Associate Professor of English, African & African Diaspora Studies and Women's Studies at Florida International University. Weir-Soley is a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship. She is the author of First Rain (Peepal Tree Press, 2006) and Eroticism, Spirituality and Resistance In Black Women's Writings (University Press of Florida, 2009)
