Rahim held a BA (1987) and PhD (1993) in literatures in English and an MA in theology (2016), and having joined the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, in 1997 as a lecturer in the Department of Liberal Arts, she went on to teach a range of courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including creative writing, literary criticism and feminist theory.
[1] Her 2009 poetry collection Approaching Sabbaths received a Casa de las Américas Prize in 2010,[2][3] for best book in the category Caribbean Literature in English or Creole.
[4] She co-edited with Barbara Lalla the collection of essays Beyond Borders: Cross Culturalism and the Caribbean Canon.
[6][7][8] Lorna Goodison, who headed the panel of judges, said: "This must surely rank as one of the most ambitious books ever attempted by a Caribbean writer.
The philosophical, moral and religious themes and ideas put forward about community in all its many manifestations are lightly, deftly handled...