WAYNE BROWN
Editor

Wayne Brown, born in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, read English at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and has lived mainly between the two countries since then. His books include On The Coast (Andre Deutsch, 1973), awarded the Commonwealth Prize for Poetry; Edna Manley: The Private Years (Andre Deutsch, 1976), a biography of the Jamaican sculptress; a second volume of poems, Voyages (Inprint Caribbean, 1989); The Child of the Sea (Inprint Caribbean, 1990), like his later Landscape with Heron (Observer Literary Books, 2000), a collection of short stories and remembrances. He has also edited Derek Walcott: Selected Poetry (Heinemann Caribbean, 1981), and several anthologies of Jamaican fiction and poetry. Wayne has been Gregory Fellow in Poetry at the University of Leeds, England, a Fulbright Scholar in the US, and has lectured in English at the University of the West Indies. Some 3,500 editions of his column In Our Time have appeared in Trinidad, and latterly Jamaica, since 1984. Currently he edits the literary pages of the Sunday Gleaner and tutors in Creative Writing in the Low-Residency MFA program of Lesley University, Boston.

LENWORTH BURKE
Legal adviser

Lenworth Burke, born in Kingston, Jamaica, is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and the Norman Manley Law School and a commercial lawyer. Lenny’s short stories have been published in Jamaican newspapers and anthologies and he won first prize for fiction in the Jamaica Observer’s Literary Awards in 2000. He is a Fellow of the Cropper Foundation of Trinidad and Tobago.

VERONICA BLAKE CARNEGIE
Marketing

Veronica Carnegie, born in Kingston, Jamaica, holds a B.A. (California State College), Dip. Ed. (UWI.); and Management Certificate (USAID). A retired teacher, she has also worked in a number of government agencies. She founded The Liguanea School and continues to operate the Liguanea Education Centre for adult education. She is the President of the History Teachers’ Association and the Jamaica Independent Schools’ Association, and received the Governor General’s Award for her contribution to adult education. Her fiction appears regularly in local newspapers, where it has attracted an ardent audience.

GWYNETH MOORE
Financial Officer

Gwyneth Moore, born in Kingston, Jamaica, holds a BSc in Accounting and Psychology from an American university and is a Chartered Accountant, and a Director in the Advisory practice of the largest global accounting firm in Jamaica, where she has been employed for over 20 years. She expresses her artistic self through painting and writing fiction. Several of her short stories have appeared in the Arts Section of the Sunday Observer.

SUJIT SARKAR
IT Consultant

Sujit Sarkar, born in Calcutta, India, studied Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology. After working in Calcutta and Bombay, he moved to Jamaica in 1994 to design and develop software systems for the local public sector. Since then, and while keeping abreast of changing software technologies and managing projects, he has increasingly been absorbed in ‘writing about human strength and frailties in the mirror of fiction or poetry’.

DEVON YETMAN
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