N.D. (Wyke) Williams was born in Guyana in 1942. He went to Jamaica as a research student to study at Mona in the late 1960s and was very much involved in the student/youth uprising of the Rodney affair in 1968. He writes of being powerfully influenced by the radical, nativist currents in Jamaican culture - [...]

Milton Williams was born on Plantation Lusignan on East Coast Demerara, Guyana, in 1936. His mother, who named him after the seventeenth century poet, was an avid reader and great lover and quoter of poetry. He remembers watching the occasional performance of a Shakespeare play at the local church school in Buxton, performed by the [...]

Professor Mark McWatt was born in Guyana in 1947. He took his first degree at the University of Toronto, then went to Leeds University to complete a Ph.D. He is currently Head of the English Department at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Barbados. He has published two collections of poetry, Interiors [...]

Marc Matthews was born in Guyana in the 1940s. He received, he reports, ‘a mid Victorian education’ at Queen’s College, Georgetown. He worked as an operator, producer and presenter on Radio Demerara; as a scriptwriter and documentary researcher/ presenter for Guyana Broadcasting Service as a tutor in drama at the Cyril Potter Teachers Training College. [...]

Karen King-Aribisala was born in Guyana. She has travelled widely, having been educated in Guyana, Barbados, Italy, Nigeria and England. She is now living and working in Nigeria where she is an Associate Professor of English in the department of English, University of Lagos, Nigeria. She is a writer of non-fiction and fiction and regarding [...]

Stanley Greaves was born in Guyana. He studied Art in the UK and was head of the Division of Creative Arts at the University of Guyana for several years. He left Guyana in the 1980s and has been resident in Barbados since that time. He is one of the Caribbean’s most distinguished artists with major [...]

Born in Guyana in 1935, Michael Gilkes taught at the University of Guyana, the University of the West Indies in Barbados for many years and at the Sir Arthur Lewis community College in St. Lucia. He has recently been a Quillian Visiting Professor at Randolph-Macon Women’s College. He currently lives in Bermuda.