Linda M. Deane Explained

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 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.[1]

Deane was co-editor with Robert Edison Sandiford of the 2007 anthology Shouts from the Outfield: The ArtsEtc Cricket Anthology,[2] 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.[1]

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]

Notes and References

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