Pamela Mordecai lives in Toronto, where she writes poetry and prose for children and adults and teaches at the Humber School for Writers. Her debut novel, RED JACKET, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Award, one of Canada's top fiction prizes, and her short story collection, PINK ICING, was recently released as an audiobook, read by herself. Her seventh collection of poetry, A FIERCE GREEN PLACE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS, is forthcoming from New Directions. Her poetry is archived at mordecai.citl.mun.ca and the Digital Libraries of the Caribbean (dLoc)
Elizabeth (Betty) Wilson, a former head of the Department of French at the University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica, is retired from the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, UWI, where she taught French Language and Literature and Translation. She was adjunct in the Department of Literatures in English for five years, in charge of the graduate course “Women, Gender and Fiction”. She has translated poetry and prose, from French and Spanish, including the novels Juletane, by Myriam Warner-Vieyra (Heinemann, 1987), Gisèle Pineau’s L’Exil selon Julia/Exile according to Julia (CARAF, University of Virginia Press, 2003) and the first collection in English by Yanick Lahens, (Haiti), Aunt Résia and the Spirits and Other Stories, (CARAF, 2010). With her sister, the writer Pam Mordecai, she edited the first anthology of Writing by Caribbean Women, Her True True Name (Heinemann, 1989). For many years Betty was a member of the French Examining Committee of the Caribbean Examination Council, including being Chief Examiner for French at both the secondary and advanced levels. She lives in Jamaica.