Robert Edison Sandiford is the author of two short story collections, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (1995) and The Tree of Youth (2005); the graphic novels Attractive Forces (1997) and Stray Moonbeams (2002); and a travel memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle (2003).  Co-founding editor of ArtsEtc: The Premier Cultural Guide to Barbados, he has worked as a journalist, book publisher, video producer (with Warm Water Productions), and teacher. 

He has won awards for both his writing and editing, including Barbados’ Governor General’s Award of Excellence in Literary Arts, a Frank Collymore Literary Endowment Award and the Harold Hoyte Award.