CHRISTOPHER JOHN FARLEY was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Brockport, New York. He is the author of a number of books, including the novel Kingston by Starlight and the biography Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley.
THOMAS GLAVE is the author of Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now: Imagination and Dissent (2005 Lambda Literary Award winner), The Torturer’s Wife, and editor of the anthology Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles (2008 Lambda Literary Award winner). He is a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.
MARLON JAMES was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. His second novel, The Book of Night Women, was a National Book Critics Circle Award fiction finalist, a NAACP Image Award finalist, and winner of the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2010 Minnesota Book Award. His first novel, John Crow’s Devil, was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. James teaches literature and creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.
KEI MILLER is a poet, novelist, and essayist. His most recent books are The Last Warner Woman and A Light Song of Light. Miller is also series editor of Heinemann’s Caribbean Writers Series and he lectures at the University of Glasgow where he recently completed his PhD.
PATRICIA POWELL was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica. She is the author of Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda, and The Fullness of Everything. Recipient of a PEN New England Discovery Award and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, Powell lives in Northern California and teaches in the MFA program at Mills College.
LEONE ROSS grew up in Kingston. She is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her work has been published by Penguin, Random House, Picador, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Tindal Street, Canongate, Sceptre, and Dutton/Plume—and translated into French and Slovak. Her second book, Orange Laughter, was named one of Wasafiri magazine’s most influential novels in the last twenty-five years. Leone teaches fiction writing at the University of Roehampton in London.
IAN THOMSON is the author of Bonjour Blanc, an acclaimed book about Haiti, and Primo Levi: A Life, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s W.H. Heinemann Award in 2003. His book on Jamaica, The Dead Yard, was awarded the Ondaatje Prize in 2010. He lives in London with his wife and children, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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