# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/opal-palmer-adisa
# Generated: 2026-08-14T14:55:20.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/opal-palmer-adisa"
name: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
slug: "opal-palmer-adisa"
description: "Opal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaican and American poet, novelist, performance artist and educator. Anthologized in more than 400 publications, she has been a regular performer of her work internationally. Professor Emeritus at California College of the Arts, Adisa is also the current Director of the Institute for Gender and Development Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus in Jamaica, where she currently resides."
tagline: "American poet and academic (born 1954)"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1954"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.48
  momentum:             7.5
  historical:           6.138661333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.opalpalmeradisa.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opal_Palmer_Adisa"
    title: "Opal Palmer Adisa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7095548"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump