Deborah Jack State University of New York at Buffalo Deborah Jack is a St. Maarten artist whose work is based in video/sound installation, photography, painting and text. Her current work deals with identity, trans-cultural existence and the effects of colonialism/tourism. Her focus is on constructing a history based on memory and the mending of the colonial rupture. In 1995 she represented the Netherlands Antilles at Carifesta VI & VII (the Caribbean Festival of the Arts). The Rainy Season is Deborah’s first published volume of poems. She was a fellow at the Caribbean Writers Institute at the University of Miami, a recipient of a grant from the Prince Bernard Fund and OKSNA (Social Cultural Organization of the Netherlands Antilles). Jack is currently completing her MFA at SUNY Buffalo, where she received a SUNY College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship. Her work has been presented in St. Maarten, Tallahassee, Ukraine, Trinidad & Tobago, Buffalo and Rochester, Sweden, Cologne and Helsinki.