Marcia Douglas is the author of the novels Madam Fate (Women's Press, 2000; Soho Press, 1999), Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells (Peepal Tree, 2005) and most recently, The Marvellous Equations of the Dread (Peepal Tree Press, 2016) , as well as the poetry collection, Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom (Peepal Tree, 1999), which won a Poetry Book Society recommendation.