Authors & Presenters
Culminating with the international success of The Polished Hoe in 2002, Austin Clarke has published ten novels, six short-story collections, and three memoirs in the United States, England, Canada, Australia, and Holland since 1964. Storm of Fortune,...
Carolyn Cooper is professor of literary and cultural studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. She is the author of Sound Clash: Jamaican Dancehall Culture at Large (2004) and Noises in the Blood: Orality, Gender and the 'Vulgar' B...
Novelist Colin Channer is the father of two children in addition to being a troublemaker, the founder and artistic director of the Calabash International Literary Festival. He is also chairman of the festival's board of trustees.
His many works ...
The work of Dana Manno in administration, education and performing arts encompasses the worlds of theatre, dance, music, fine arts and electronic media. As a senior faculty member of Adelphi University’s Performing Arts and African American Studies...
Dorine O’Garro was born in Montserrat and migrated to New York City at the age of fifteen. She attended Washington Irving High School, and Hunter College, where she majored in Spanish and minored in French, and earned her BA and MA degrees. She... [table id=1 /]
Edgar Nkosi White is a playwright, poet and novelist. He was born in the Caribbean of Montserrat and was raised in New York City (South Bronx).
His literary career began with the poet Langston Hughes who encouraged his writing when Ed... [caption id="attachment_484" align="alignnone" width="205" caption="Photo by Joseph Jones"]
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Eric Jerome Dickey was born in Memphis, Tennessee and attended the University of Memphis (the former Memphis State), where he earned his degree in ...
Born in New Jersey, Frané Lessac loves to travel and to work on books based on her worldwide journeys. "I try to portray the people and places of these countries to children in a sensitive, accurate, and educational way." Attracted by the beauty o...
Professor, Sir Howard Fergus is widely published in the fields of history, education, poetry and literary criticism. His works include History of Education in the British Leeward Islands (2003), Montserrat: History of a Caribbean Colony (1994, 2004),... [caption id="attachment_408" align="alignnone" width="207" caption="Photo by Rachel Eliza Griffith"]
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Born in Ghana in 1962, Kwame Dawes spent most of his childhood and early adult life in Jamaica. He is a writer of poetry, fiction, nonfict...
Mark Greenwood is an author and musician. His books, Outback Adventure (2000), Magic Boomerang (2001), and Our Big Island (2001) were prompted by an interest in multicultural literature and the unique way illustrated books can assist children to deve...
Diverse, innovative and multi-genre, Opal Palmer Adisa is an exceptional talent, nurtured on cane-sap and the oceanic breeze of Jamaica. Charismatic and informed, Adisa’s concerns span the gamut from children to the environment, and as such there i...
Rachel Manley was born in Cornwall, England, the daughter of an English mother and Jamaican father, the future Prime Minister, Michael Manley. At the age of two she was sent to Jamaica and was thereafter brought up by her grandparents, Norman and Edn...