About
Guyanese-Canadian author and teacher who has written multiple novels such as Dragon's Cry, Vital Signs, Higher Ed and This Body. She served as a creative writing professor at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, United Kingdom. In 2021, she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She sang libretto for Hannah Kendall's opera The Knife of Dawn, based on the incarceration of poet Martin Carter.
Before Fame
She moved to Canada with her family when she was three-years-old. As a child, she wanted to be a writer.
Trivia
She co-edited the 2018 book Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada. She was one of the winners of the Eccles British Library Award 2018 for her memoir Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging. The book was the Non-Fiction Winner of the 2020 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature.
Family Life
She has Scottish, English, French, Portuguese, Indian, Amerindian, African and Chinese heritage.
Associated With
She was a finalist for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction for her memoir Shame on Me: An Anatomy of Race and Belonging.
