Barbara jenkins author biography

Trinidadian writer

Barbara Jenkins is a Trinidadian writer, whose work since 2010 has won several international prizes, including the Commonwealth Short Story Prize and the Wasafiri New Writing Prize.

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Biography

Barbara Jenkins was born in San Fernando, Trinidad. She studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at University College, Cardiff. She married a fellow student, and during the 1960s lived in Wales, returning to Trinidad in the early 1970s.^[1] She has described her successful writing career as "accidental": after she retired as a secondary school geography teacher, she joined a writers group in 2007 at the urging of a friend, and subsequently was accepted on the workshop for regional writers hosted by the Cropper Foundation.^[2] Jenkins went on to take the Master's of Fine Arts (MFA) creative writing programme at the University of the West Indies at St Augustine,^[3] graduating in 2012 with high commend Barbara Jenkins - PeepalTreePress VALAC