I was surprised by how emotional I got watching Serena Williams in the recent U.S. Open tennis finals. I don’t think of myself as a “sports person,” and though I’ve followed tennis since I was a kid, I never thought of paying to see it live—until Serena Williams became a lead player.
Author: Rosamond S. King
Rosamond King is a critical and creative writer and artist. Her book Island Bodies: Transgressive Sexualities in the Caribbean Imagination won the 2015 Caribbean Studies Association Gordon K and Sybil Lewis Prize for the best Caribbean Studies Book; her scholarship has also appeared in many journals including Callaloo, The Journal of West Indian Literature and Women and Performance; and her poetry appears in the Lambda Award-winning collection Rock | Salt | Stone and more than three dozen journals and anthologies.