Kingston Noir (34 page)

C
HRISTOPHER
J
OHN
F
ARLEY
was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and raised in Brockport, New York. He is the author of a number of books, including the novel
Kingston by Starlight
and the biography
Before the Legend: The Rise of Bob Marley.

T
HOMAS
G
LAVE
is the author of
Whose Song? and Other Stories, Words to Our Now
:
Imagination and Dissent
(2005 Lambda Literary Award winner),
The Torturer’s Wife
, and editor of the anthology
Our Caribbean: A Gathering of Lesbian and Gay Writing from the Antilles
(2008 Lambda Literary Award winner). He is a 2012 Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University.

M
ARLON
J
AMES
was born in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1970. His second novel,
The Book of Night Women
, was a National Book Critics Circle Award fiction finalist, a NAACP Image Award finalist, and winner of the 2010 Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2010 Minnesota Book Award. His first novel,
John Crow’s Devil
, was a finalist for the
Los Angeles Times
Book Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. James teaches literature and creative writing at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

K
EI
M
ILLER
is a poet, novelist, and essayist. His most recent books are
The Last Warner Woman
and
A Light Song of Light
. Miller is also series editor of Heinemann’s Caribbean Writers Series and he lectures at the University of Glasgow where he recently completed his PhD.

P
ATRICIA
P
OWELL
was born in Spanish Town, Jamaica. She is the author of
Me Dying Trial, A Small Gathering of Bones, The Pagoda,
and
The Fullness of Everything
. Recipient of a PEN New England Discovery Award and a Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest Writers’ Award, Powell lives in Northern California and teaches in the MFA program at Mills College.

L
EONE
R
OSS
grew up in Kingston. She is an award-winning novelist and short story writer. Her work has been published by Penguin, Random House, Picador, Farrar Straus & Giroux, Tindal Street, Canongate, Sceptre, and Dutton/Plume—and translated into French and Slovak. Her second book,
Orange Laughter
, was named one of
Wasafiri
magazine’s most influential novels in the last twenty-five years. Leone teaches fiction writing at the University of Roehampton in London.

I
AN
T
HOMSON
is the author of
Bonjour Blanc
, an acclaimed book about Haiti, and
Primo Levi: A Life
, which won the Royal Society of Literature’s W.H. Heinemann Award in 2003. His book on Jamaica,
The Dead Yard
, was awarded the Ondaatje Prize in 2010. He lives in London with his wife and children, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.