10 Female Caribbean Authors You Should Know

Patrick Bova
Guyana Modern
Published in
1 min readJul 31, 2018
Courtesy LitHub.

By Gerty Dambury | Literary Hub

“When I was studying English and American literature, I was struck by the fact that not one black woman — American, English or Caribbean — was included on any of the syllabi. It seemed as if such a category of writers did not exist,” writes Dambury. Their list includes the likes of Una Marson, Selected Poems;
Alecia McKenzie, Stories from Yard; Afua Cooper, Memories Have Tongue; Elma Napier, A Flying Fish Whispered, and many more!

Read their full list of suggestions over at LitHub.

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