Marie-Elena John

Marie-Elena John

female
Columbia University, Washington, D.C, Antiguan and Barbudan, Publisher's Weekly, Caribbeanwomenwriter, African Development Foundation…writer, caribbean, caribbean literature, Historical fiction writer
Marie-Elena John is a Caribbean writer whose first novel, "Unburnable", was published in 2006. She was born and raised in Antigua and is a former...
Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys

female, deceased (1979)
Caribbeanwomenwriter, Modernism, dominica, alcoholism, From Dominica, West Indian…caribbean, Short story writer, writer, Quartet writer, Wide Sargasso Sea writer
Jean Rhys, originally Ella Gwendolen Rees Williams, was a Caribbean novelist who wrote in the mid 20th century. Her first four novels were...
Michelle Cliff

Michelle Cliff

female, 63 years old
Caribbeanwomenwriter, homophobic, Warburg Institute, bisexuality, free enterprise, prose poem…writer
Michelle Cliff (born 24 October, 1946) is a Jamaican-American author whose notable works include "No Telephone to Heaven", "Abeng", and "Free...
Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

female, 56 years old
Caribbeanwomenwriter, Trinidad and Tobago immigrants to Canada, Governor General's Award winning poet, Canadian women writer, Women novelist, Trinidad and Tobago poet…LGBT writer, writer
Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer who focuses on issues relating to black women.
Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo

female, 51 years old
Caribbeanwomenwriter, Trinidad and Tobago immigrants to Canada, Canadian women writer, Indo-Canadian, LGBT writer, From Canada…writer
Shani Mootoo (born 1958 in Ireland) is a Trinidadian-Canadian writer and artist whose family has traversed the cultures of India, Ireland, England,...

Maryse Condé

female, 72 years old
Caribbeanwomenwriter, writer, caribbean, racial, sorbonne, race
Maryse Condé is a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel "Segu" (1984-1985). Maryse Condé was born at...

Sylvia Wynter

female, 81 years old
Caribbeanwomenwriter, University of the West Indies academic, University of the West Indies, University of London, BBC, Jamaican…writer
Sylvia Wynter (born 1928 in Cuba) is a Caribbbean novelist, dramatist and essayist. Wynter's parents were Jamaican, and she returned to Jamaica as...

Elizabeth Nunez

female (Brooklyn, New York, United States)
New York University, Caribbeanwomenwriter, English studies, CUNY, Ph.D., English…caribbean, writer
Elizabeth Nunez is a novelist, distinguished professor of English, and chair of the English Department at Medgar Evers College–CUNY, in Brooklyn, Ne...