Lorna Goodison female

Lorna Goodison (born 1947) is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time...

Cedella Booker female

Cedella Marley Booker (born July 23, 1926) is the mother of the late reggae musician Bob Marley and a singer and writer. Booker was born Cedella...

Nalo Hopkinson female

Nalo Hopkinson (born December 20, 1960) is a Jamaican-born writer and editor who lives in Canada. Her science fiction and fantasy novels ("Brown...

Olive Senior female

Olive Marjorie Senior (b. 1941 in Trelawny, Jamaica) is a Jamaican poet and short story writer currently living in Canada. She went to Montego Bay...

Kellie Magnus female

Kellie Magnus, born December 10, 1970, in Kingston, Jamaica, is a Caribbean author and journalist. She received her undergraduate degree from...

Erna Brodber female

Erna Brodber (b. 1940) is a Jamaican writer and sociologist, born in Woodside, Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica. She won the Caribbean and Canadian...

Mary Anne Barker female, deceased

Mary Anne Barker, Lady Barker, later Mary Anne Broome, Lady Broome, was an author. Born Mary Anne Stewart in Spanish Town, Jamaica, she was the...

Jean 'Binta' Breeze female

Jean "Binta" Breeze (born 1956) is a Jamaican dub poet, and storyteller. She has worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor and...

Pamela Mordecai female

Pamela Mordecai is a Jamaican writer, teacher, and scholar. Born in Jamaica, she attended high school there and college in the USA, where she did a...

Honor Ford-Smith female (Toronto, on, Canada)

Honor Maria Ford-Smith (b. 1951, Montreal, Canada) is a Jamaican actress, playwright, scholar, and poet. The daughter of a brown Jamaican mother...