Linda M. Deane is an English-born writer and editor living in Barbados.

Biography

The daughter of Barbadian parents, she received most of her secondary school education in England[1] and earned a BA degree in Comparative American Studies from the University of Warwick. She has worked as a journalist in Barbados, the United Kingdom and the United States. She works as a tutor at the primary school level for creative writing. She was a founding member of Writers Ink Barbados.[2]

Deane was co-editor with Robert Edison Sandiford of the 2007 anthology Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology,[1] as well as other later collections.[3] She is also a poet and essayist, and her work has appeared in various publications, including Poui, The Caribbean Writer and Bim: Arts for the 21st Century, and in the anthology The Understanding Between Foxes and Light. She also writes for children.[2]

In 2006, she received first prize in the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment, also receiving the Prime Minister's Award, for her collection of poetry Cutting Road Blues: A Narrative.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Captivated By This Way Of Being: An Interview With Linda M. Deane". great weather for MEDIA. 14 August 2013.
  2. 1 2 "Linda M. Deane". Bim Literary Festival & Book Fair.
  3. ↑ "Linda M. Deane". ArtsEtc. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  4. ↑ "Deane does the double". The Nation. 23 January 2006.
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