ABOUT ROBERT
Robert is the author of two short story collections, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall (Empyreal Press/The Independent Press, 1995) and The Tree of Youth (DC Books, 2005); the graphic novels Attractive Forces (NBM, 1997), Stray Moonbeams (NBM, 2002) and Great Moves (NBM, 2010); a travel memoir, Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle (DC Books, 2003); and edited with Linda M. Deane Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology (AE Books, 2007), and Green Readings, Barbados: The First Five Years (AE Books, 2012). 

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 and the Harold Hoyte Award, respectively.

ABOUT LINDA
Linda is a British-Barbadian writer and editor.

She is a graduate of the University of Warwick’s Comparative American Studies programme, and has over 25 years’ experience as a journalist in Barbados, England and the United States.

In 2006, she won first prize in Barbados’ prestigious Frank Collymore Literary Endowment and received the Prime Minister’s Award for the poetry collection Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative (in press). She is co-editor with Robert of Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology (AE Books, 2007), and Green Readings, Barbados: The First Five Years (AE Books, 2012).  Linda is also author of Path to a Heritage Strategy for Barbados: An Independent Report for the Barbados National Commission for UNESCO (2003).

Her poems and essays have appeared in ArtsEtc, Poui: The Cave Hill Literary Annual, The Caribbean Writer, the Writers Ink anthology Bazaar Vol. One, and Bim: Arts for the 21st Century. Her work is also in the great weather for MEDIA Summer 2013 anthology: The Understanding Between Foxes and Light. 

A founding director of The Barbados Copyright Agency (B-COPY), Linda is also a member of the group Writers Ink and tutors in creative writing in primary and secondary schools.