About

It all started when…

I was about age ten and a teacher paid me a small fortune of two shilling and sixpence for an essay I wrote in class. A year later, I wrote my first novel and personally sent it off to a publisher in New York. It was written in longhand, in ink, inside a school exercise book and was returned to me with a note encouraging me to continue writing and submit again at a later date. For a country boy from the rural Lawrence Tavern community in St Andrew Jamaica, this was a monumental achievement.

Since then the arts have followed me as much as I have followed them. Since the age of eighteeen my poems have graced Jamaican local media and stages, even going as far as reciting them on national broadcast. I won the prestigious Tastee Talent Contest years before it paved the way for Beenie Man's career. That award lead to a scholarship to the Jamaica School of Drama (now the Edna Manley College of the Arts) where I studied theatre and directing.

Since migrating to the USA, life pushed me towards a different path but the arts kept following me. I was a keen observer of the birth of Hip-Hop in the States, dancehall in Jamaica, and the cultural and artistic progressions of New York through the ages. It has only been over the past 10 years that under the encouragement of my friends, I finally unearthed my passion for writing once again.

My first books were written for those with a poetic sweet tooth. Sorbet and Sweet Potato Pudding and The Chronicles of a Honey Bee are my odes to black women. Afterall, African queens deserve their own African Neruda too.