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Charmaine Munroe, now known to the world as Macka Diamond, was born in Kingston, Jamaica as the daughter of a record producer. From an early age she began performing as a singer, and after completing high school she began her … Continue reading →

Barbadian Esther Phillips holds an MFA degree in Creative Writing from the University of Miami where she was awarded a James Michener Fellowship. For her thesis, she won the Alfred Boas Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets in … Continue reading →

Jason Cole grew up in Barbados and then studied fine art print making in England before becoming an illustrator.  His art has been featured in story books, text books and a newspaper comic strip in Barbados. He is also a … Continue reading →

Wilkins is founder and managing director of Tamarind, a publishing company primarily producing children’s books with a Caribbean orientation. Continue reading →

Her book, “Foxy: My Life in Three Acts,” was published by Grand Central Publishing this spring. It details her career from her rise as an actress in blackploitation films of the 1970s and her breakthrough role in Quentin Tarentino’s film “Jackie Brown” to her romantic involvements with Kareem Abdul Jabar, Freddie Prinze and Richard Pryor. Continue reading →

Award-winning novelist and short story writer from Belize who currently teaches at Kent State University in Ohio Continue reading →

Grace Nichols was born in Georgetown, Guyana, in 1950 and grew up in a small country village on the Guyanese coast. She moved to the city with her family when she was eight, an experience central to her first novel, Whole of a Morning Sky (1986), set in 1960s Guyana in the middle of the country’s struggle for independence. Continue reading →